Hey friends, welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast.

This is the weekly highlight reel of videos that I have put out on YouTube.

So in case you don't know, you can go over to YouTube and watch all my videos.

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And you will get it. And you can subscribe there. Thank you to the many people who already subscribe.

And then what I've started doing is weekly highlight reels of some of the videos that have

gone out on YouTube that would be of interest to the podcast listeners as well. So thanks for

listening. And you can also, like I said, go over and join me on YouTube history and copy and

search for Heather. And there I am. So let's get right into it. We are going to talk about what was

really wrong with Henry the 8th's leg. So I don't think it's any secret. Henry the 8th was obese.

He had a lot of medical issues and he had this famous leg wound. And we're going to talk about it

a little bit about how it was treated,

how it might have been treated today, and kind of get into that. And it's interesting to imagine

how things could have gone differently if Henry had just had some antibiotics. Although,

you know, that doesn't necessarily solve everything even today. A lot of people have issues

with wounds healing, stuff like that. But we're going to get into all of that. So Henry VIII is remembered for his six wives, his break

with the Catholic Church, his outsized personality. Yet in his later years, his chronic leg ulcers

became one of his most persistent struggles. These wounds likely stemming from a jousting accident caused him pain,

limited his mobility, and frustrated his physicians. Exploring the causes and the treatment of his

condition offers a fascinating glimpse into Tudor medicine and the challenges that Henry faced.

With modern medical knowledge, it's clear that his health could have been managed very, very differently.

So as a young man, Henry was the picture of health.

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