[Sca-cooks] Charlemagne and the doctors

[Laura C. Minnick]

Terry Decker wrote:
> Here's a little quote from Einhard.
>
> Bear
>
> "His health was good until four years before he died, when he suffered 
> from constant fevers.  Toward the very end he also became lame in one 
> foot.  Even then he trusted his own judgment rather than the advice of 
> his physicians, whom he almost loathed, since they urged him to stop 
> eating roast meat, which he liked, and to start eating boiled meat."
>
> Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne, chapter 22.
>
Yes- that's the quote that got me started on the whole thing of 
wondering why his doctors insisted on boiled meats. (As it turns out, no 
one tells the emperor what to do!) Have a brand-new copy of Anthimus 
that I'm starting in on. Might get some illumination there. :-)

'Lainie


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