Death at the hands of doctors

摘要

In the 17th to 19th centuries, the school of heroic medicine pushed blood-letting and purging to the further limits, and some of the casualties were notables. Philip II of Spain suffered a purging and bleeding assault by his doctors for two months before succumbing. Louis XIV only just escaped lethal poisoning by his physicians. George Washington was undoubtedly killed by his. Ray Sturgess, MRPharmS, of Knaresborough, takes a trip through time.