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A02447 The true picture and relation of Prince Henry his noble and vertuous disposition containing certaine observations and proofes of his towardly and notable inclination to vertue, of the pregnancie of his wit, farre above his age, comprehended in sundry of his witty and pleasant speaches. By W.H. With the true relation of the sicknesse and death of the same most illustrious prince, vvith the opening of his body. Written by a famous doctor of physick in French, and newly translated into English. W. H., fl. 1634.; Haydone, William.; Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573-1655. 1634 (1634) STC 12581; ESTC S103592 29,247 48

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blood hauing been declared whereof the opportunity was past for that time by reason of the excretion of the belly in end by the plurality of voices the Diascordium was concluded in presence of Sir Thomas Challoner Knight Chamberlayne to his Highnes who among others a most worthy Seruant of his Maister was continually with him and was at the greatest part of the consultations together with Sir David Murray Knight first Gentleman of the Bed-chamber and Maister of the Robbes and Wardrobe whose faithfulnesse and diligent care is knowen to euery one The relation of the foresaid consultations set downe in this treatise may be controlled by these two persons of honour and dignity or be confirmed by their voices and by the consent of all his Highnes his Gentlemen that were witnesses of all things According to the resolution taken at ten of the clock at night or there about was ministered the Diascordium tempered with cordials which were not very hott The operation hereof was small and his Highnes rested with his ordinary accidents though asswaged neuer so litle After the space of four houres the backe-bone the shoulders and the armes with the tongue suffered diuers convulsions The rauing increased the muscle Sphincter losing its naturall faculty did suffer some untimely excretion to come forth and death seemed to be very neare hand In this desperate case euery one hasted to hinder this unspeakable losse and out of the abundance of their affection propounded that which they thought might do any good The Doctors after that they had giuen out their prognostick which they perceiued would proue but too true hauing neuer preassed to giue his Highnes any thing whatsoeuer but such whereof they knew the preparation or making In end by the common consent of all six was giuen to his Highnes a cordiall which had its effect by asswaging the rauings and convulsions and causing him sweat abundantly which was the first time that he had sweat any But all in vaine in such sort that this most illustrious Prince hauing receiued no comfort by this excretion commendable in all its qualities the Councell of Physicians perceiuing nature to be vanquished and that art was unable to attaine to affoord sufficient helpe unto the same committed the rest into the hands of God whom it pleased a litle after to take from the world this most noble heroicall soule up to himselfe that he might inherit with his Sauiour Christ a perfect and permanent felicity This happened about eight of the clock at night upon Friday the 6. of Nouember 1612. VPon the next day after the death which was on Saturday the seauenth of the foresaid moneth by his Majesties cōmaund and order from the Lordes of the Councell about 5. of the clocke at night all the Physicians that had been at his cure the Prince Elector Palatine his Physician and others the Gentlemen of the late Prince his Chambers and others his Seruants assembled together in the same chamber where he died where such were admitted as it pleased to be present there without confusion indifferently in presence of the whole assembly his body was opened by the Kings and his Highnes his Surgeons which in its outward and inward parts was found to be such as followes THe Skinne as of one that is dead pale nowayes spotted with blacke or blew or lead colour which might breed suspicion of any violence farre lesse marked with purples like fleabits which might argue any pestilent or cōtagious poison About the Kidneys buttocks and hinder parts of the thighes full of rednesse by reason of lying for a long time on the backe with great paine and labour The belly somewhat swelled and stretched out through windinesse which issued forth by the least opening that was made of the nauill being naturally lifted up and immediatly the belly fell downe The Stomach whole and sound without and within hauing neuer been troubled during the whole sicknes nor suffered any will to vomite vomitings hickots nor any other accident which might giue euidence that it had receiued any secret wrong The ●iuer without in its higher or upper part marked with points in the lower with blakish lines and farre p●ler and wanner then it should haue been The Gall-bladder voide of humour full of wind The Splene aboue and in its low extremity somewhat blacke filled with a blacke and earthly blood The Kidneis very goodly and without blemish The Midriffe beneath the parts about the heart which had too litle mater in them spotted with blacke and as it were a leaden black and blew colour The Lungs almost all blacke in the greatest part thereof the rest being marked with blacke puft up and full of a parched blood and of a corrupt bloody serosity which foaming issued forth plentifully at a part of the body of the lungs that was opened In which opening and cutting the parts about to shew the heart the Surgeon through mischance hauing cut the thrunke of the great veine the greatest part of the blood emptied it selfe into the Thorax leauing the lower veines empty whereof the company was presently aduertised From this colour and framing of the lungs were gathered some consequences of an exceeding great fulnesse and of an excessiue heat which appeared yet more in so farre as the vvindpipe the throat and the tongue vvere smeared ouer vvith a blacke sewet and among other accidents the tongue drie and chinked in many places The Heart goodly whole in appearance and without any fault that could be remarked in any of its conditions The hindmost veines which are in the inner cause of the braine called Pious mother swelled and puft up through the abundance of blood farre beyond the naturall order The substance of the Braine very goodly and cleane but the venticles thereof full of a very cleare water which came forth in great plenty at the cutting One part of these accidents was engendered by the feuer venemous only because of the putrifaction of the same of diuers humours gathered together a long time before his Highnes not being subject to any dangerous disease either by inheritance or birth Another part by reason of the convulsion ravings and drousines which through fulnesse choking the naturall heate and extinguishing the beginnings of life through naughtinesse haue brought his Highnes to his graue without any appearance signe or accident of poison The summe of this Relation hauing been penned in presence of all the foresaid Physicians by one of the company was sent to his Majesty subscribed by them all the day after the opening of the body SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MVNDI FINIS