The court doctors visit Louis XIV in the film “The last days of Louis XIV”
In the last years of his existence Louis XIV he was afflicted with a severe form of gangrene in his leg left, in turn caused by a pre-existing gout, a frequent disease among people of the time belonging to a certain rank, heavy consumers of red meat and game.
The cure developed to relieve the pain that the aforementioned condition caused the monarch is rather questionable:immerse the diseased leg in a tub filled with hot flavored wine , according to a therapeutic use of alcohol and herbs already experienced many centuries ago.
We do not know if the treatment worked as a painkiller, but it certainly did not cure the illustrious patient.
The Sun King died on September 1, 1715 , just before turning 77, precisely because of the complications due to gout and the consequent gangrene.