[The accident and death of King Stanislas at Lunéville in February 1766. The drugs used for his burns and his embalmment. Reflections on this treatment].
Early in the morning of february 5th, 1766, King Stanislas, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, 88 years old, is seriously burned after a fall near the fire-place of his room. The medical treatment carried out by his physicians aims to cure his burns, but also to avoid infection and sustain his general state. But Stanislas dies on february 23th, probably of septicemia and major metabolic abnormalities. After the description of the accident, of the treatment and of the evolution of king's state, the paper studies the composition and effect hoped of the drugs administered with respect to the ideas and knowledges of this moment. Then some words are devoted to Jean-Gaspard Vockel, the apothecary of the king, the probable supplier of the drugs and the proved supplier of the products used for the embalmment. The last part of the paper offers a reflection on the treatment, on the possibility or not to save Stanislas, taking in account the importance of his burns, the current pathophysiological knowledges and the therapeutical measures which come from them that would have been taken today.
Labrude
Pierre
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D000058:Accidental Falls; D002056:Burns / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000266:history*; D004615:Embalming / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D005602:France; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010595:Pharmacists / Q000266:history