“Harrison died of ‘pneumonia’.”

These people are so disgusting.

NO.

• Friday: given unnamed “fatigue and mental anxiety" medication
• Saturday: in bed with a "severe chill", doctor applied mustard plaster to his stomach and gave him a mild unnamed laxative
• 4:00 a.m. Sunday: doctor initiated bloodletting; resulted in a drop in his pulse rate. Given castor oil (probably fine) and unnamed medicines to induce vomiting. Diagnosed with pneumonia
• Monday: as the one doctor had done such a bang-up job, a whole gaggle of doctors was called in. Demons administered opium, and camphor with wine and brandy

Our goggles are clouded by modernity, but this still sounds really intentionally stupid.

“But it wus pnoomonyuh. From his speeech. Even though he didn’t get sick till a month after that.”