ABSTRACT
One of the things that we can appreciate from medical history is how immense the improvement has been in the management of everyday emergencies. Caroline of Ansbach was born in 1683 and married George, Prince of Wales, in her early twenties. She possessed ample Germanic charms: flaxen hair, sky-blue eyes, fair skin and a voluptuous figure. Caroline was seized with severe colicky pain and vomiting while at St. James's Palace. Dr. George Tesier, physician to the household, and Dr. Noel Broxolme, of St. George's Hospital were summoned. The usual polypharmacy of the early eighteenth century was immediately put into operation; snake root and brandy, Daffy's Elixir and Sir Walter Raleigh's cordial were prescribed and just as quickly vomited. Caroline called George to her side and told him that on her death he should marry again.
