Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Medieval Kings Who Died In HORRIBLE Ways!" video.

  1. I'm surprised Louis XIV of France didn't get a mention. Quoting the wikipedia article here: Despite the image of a healthy and virile king that Louis sought to project, evidence exists to suggest that his health was not very good. He had many ailments: for example, symptoms of diabetes, as confirmed in reports of suppurating periostitis in 1678, dental abscesses in 1696, along with recurring boils, fainting spells, gout, dizziness, hot flushes, and headaches. From 1647 to 1711, the three chief physicians to the king (Antoine Vallot, Antoine d'Aquin, and Guy-Crescent Fagon) recorded all of his health problems in the Journal de Santé du Roi (Journal of the King's Health), a daily report of his health. On 18 November 1686, Louis underwent a painful operation for an anal fistula that was performed by the surgeon Charles Felix de Tassy, who prepared a specially shaped curved scalpel for the occasion. The wound took more than two months to heal.[123] Louis died of gangrene at Versailles on 1 September 1715, four days before his 77th birthday, after 72 years on the throne. Enduring much pain in his last days, he finally "yielded up his soul without any effort, like a candle going out", while reciting the psalm Deus, in adjutorium me festina (O Lord, make haste to help me).
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  2. Food poisoning is no joke. I caught salmonella from some bad fish I ate abroad. The sickness consisted of fever, severe joint pains, chills and the worst kind of diarrhea imaginable. Graphic detail: I passed BLOOD in my stool for three weeks and had severe stomach pains throughout on top of the other symptoms. And I could only eat food consisting of blueberry soup and hard bread and little else. Normal foods made me feel sick almost immediately and my apetite was pretty much absent. At least I had access to antibiotics, but it was not a "quick" cure.
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