The physician in English history / by Norman Moore.

  • Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet
Date:
1913
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Credit: The physician in English history / by Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    amongst his sons. The actual termination of his life is consistent with the opinion I have expressed. On Thursday, September 9, 1087, according to Ordericus, at the beginning of sunrise the king was waked by the bell of the cathedral of Rouen and asked what had rung. On hearing in the answer the words “ in the church of St Mary,” he raised his hands and asked her prayers for his reconciliation “with her Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ,” and with these words immediately died. I remember a patient in St Bartholomew’s with a new growth of the colon who died in this way. It was obvious that her strength was rapidly failing but though very weak she had talked quite clearly the day before. The next morning, a little later than William of Normandy, she raised one arm, placed her hand upon her chest and immediately died. She had a large antemortem clot in her right ventricle
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