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Death By Doctoring
(Installment Number Four)

“Death by Doctoring” is a subject that causes some people to blow a brain fuse. I have not come against Doctors themselves, but against the ignorance of the profession, and  the treatments themselves which often are the opposite of being life enhancing, but destroy the immune system and hasten the patients death by using caustic chemicals and drugs to treat patients who already are ill with cancer and other diseases which are not caused by parasites. The history of conventional medicine has included terrible errors inflicted on patients for hundreds of years, and errors still are proven and admitted to be one of the leading causes of death,, thus my title.

By way of again introducing the subject of “Death By Doctoring”, travel back in time a few hundred years to the bedside of King Charles II, where fourteen of the highest physicians in the land are earnestly ‘reviving’ the king after he had a stroke.

How King Charles II was “cured” to Death…

One of the most Notorious Cases in the history of bloodletting involved the treatment in the seventeenth century of England’ monarch, King Charles II. Because the ling had only the best, and no fewer than fourteen royal physicians, all under gredat pressure to save his life., he endured excruciating agonies in the name of medicine before he finally expired. (presumably of a brain hemorrhage

This a true story of what was done, by the doctors,  as recorded by historians:. Remember these doctors were the best in the land.

The ordeal began at eight o’clock on the morning of February 2, 1685. Charles was about to have his daily shave when he suddenly uttered a cry of pain and erupted into a thrashing fity of convulsion . (most likely from a stroke and brain seizure) A physician was called by the name of Edmund King, who was a guest at Whitehall Palace, was summoned ande applied “emergency treatment”, that is he took sixteen ounces of blood from the King’s left arm.

While this was occurring, messengers galloped off to bring the King’s Chief Physician, Dr. Sir Charles Scarburgh. “I flocked quickly to the King’s assistance”, Scarburgh recorded in his diary, in which he also detailed King Charles treatment. After consulting with six others of his colleagues, concluded the king was no better because the first doctor had taken insufficient blood.

You see it was already known, way back then, that stroke can be caused by high blood pressure, thus Dr. Scarburgh drew off an additional eight ounces of blood by a method called cupping, in which the king’s shoulder was cut in three places and three cylinders shaped like wine glasses were flamed to expel air, then applied as suction devices to draw out the blood as they cooled.

Unfortunately for the king, he stirred and his movement was taken to be an “auspicious sign”; it was taken to mean that he would benefit from more fluids being extracted from his body. This Dr. Scarburgh did with a “volumous Emetic” that induced retching and vomiting to expel it; it consisted of poisonous antimony potassium tartrate (also used as a caustic corrosive for permanently dying cloth)

Again his royal majesty stirred, and this time they gave him an enema to extract more “Ill humors”. The staff of physicians grew impatient with the kings lack of progress, he was still unconscious so the king was turned over and a larger enema was administered.
The patient regained consciousness. The doctors were ecstatic. Surely the king would benefit from more blood-letting. So only two hours after the first, he was again flipped back and force-fed an oral purgative.. When he still did not respond and rally, the doctors shaved his head and smeared it with blistering camphor and mustard plasters.

The plasters contained cantharis – Spanish fly, the timeless aphrodisiac  -(still being sold today on the internet and in sex shops) - which is readily absorbed through the skin and irritates the urinary tract, encouraging frequent urination and the loss of more “humors”.

The patient, who because of the loss of consciousness had felt no pain, spontaneously regained consciousness. Again, the doctors were ecstatic! -Their treatments were working! Surely the king would benefit now from more of it! This was Dr. Scarburgh’s reasoning when he administered another emetic to “bring up” the yellow humor (bile) and then blew a powder of Veratrum album,  the poisonous rhizome of the white hellebore lily up the kings nose to initiate paroxysms of sneezing – to, of course extract the phlegmatic 0white) humor or mucus brought out by intense repeated  sneezing.

Anjyone would think by now that the king was by now “humorless”, but before he was permitted to go to sleep that night, he took the most massive purgative to “keep the bowels open during the night. –Which could not have given him much rest.

All the therapy had been administered within a period of twelve hours, King Charles was dehydrated,

The next morning, Tuesday, Charles was not only alive but actually alert, tholugh extremely weak. The physicians said it was “The Blessing Of God, being approved by the application of “proper and seasonable remedies,” reasoned Dr. Scarburgh who returned that day accompanied by rlrvrn of the finest consulting physicians.

After examining King Charles, they decided he would benefit from more bleeding, so they opened both jugulat veins in his neck for ten ounces of “ill humors.” Then, to prevent the possibility of another fit, they gave him a sweep julep of “black cherry, peony, lavender, crushed pearls, and white sugar.” Which he may have appreciated.

But on Wednesday, the king suffered more fits. So again he was bled, then given a draft made from the pulverized skull; of an “innocent man” who had met a violent death. The treatment smacked of homeopathy in that “forty drops of human skull were administered to stop convulsions” as Dr. Scarburgh wrote, thus . attempting to cure a symptom with a “like” substance. The king had a fitful night’s sleep, though no more fits…ah, the skull treatment had worked!

On Thursday, exhausted, dehydrated, and in great pain, the king was again bled, repurged, flipped onto his stomach for another enema, then given the “miraculous Jesuits bark.” This was a much touted preparation of the day, laced heavily with quinine. It’s main champion in the 1630’s was the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits.

With ministries throughout the world, the priests were called on to treat epidemics of malarial fever, a remedy they encouraged the medical profession to make routine treatment. It’s association with the religious order conferred upon it an aura of miracles, but it was inappropriate for King Charles’ condition, and on toxic quinine the king grew gravely worse. The phalanx of royal physicians were mystified.

On Friday, Dr. Scarburgh wrote: “Alas! After an ill fated night His Serene Majesty’s strength seemed exhausted to such a degree that the whole assembly of physicians lost all hope and became very despondent.”

Though seemingly defeated, they could not let a king die.
Charles was bled almost bloodless. And, if that was not sufficient measure of the doctor’s desperation to revive him, , he was given an “antidote to revive him, which contained extracts of all the herbs and animals of the kingdom,” The known apothecary was exhausted..As was King Charles, who could not hold up hold up his head to swallow another draft, so one was, as Dr. Scarburgh recorded, “forced down the kings throat”, while others held up his head

He grew breathless. Again he was bled. At eight thirty Saturday morning his speech faltered and failed. At ten o’clock he was mercifully comatose. At noon he finally died, a testament to the stamina of the human body, which took a week for the royal physicians to kill.
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There are other recent examples of which I personally know in our present day. Some people get mad at my title “Death by Doctoring” but I will present proof to you in my next blog,
of two examples I personally know, proving it still happens today,  which will be next time on; :

“Death By Doctoring”,  Installment number 5,

Msgr. Dr. Howard E. May
Msgr@Godgift.org
Website:www.Godgift.org
September 25. 2007

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