[Sca-cooks] Charlemagne and the doctors
Laura C. Minnick
lcm at jeffnet.org
Sun Mar 7 13:06:11 PST 2010
otsisto wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
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>> "His health was good until four years before he died, when he suffered
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> 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.
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>>
> 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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> Though I don't know if the physicians would have know exactly but could it
> have been the carcinogens that roasted tends to have. Perhaps they had
> associated the condition to the roasted meat.
>
> De
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Which was pretty much what I was wondering when I brought this up a
couple of weeks back. The consensus here on the list was that it was
likely a humoral theory issue. Which is why I'm reading Anthimus...
'Lainie
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