Poor Prince Carl Oscar got the measles. He was ordered cold baths by his doctors, which led to the pneumonia that killed him. He would probably have been better off without doctors...
Indeed: my understanding is that one does not, strictly speaking, *catch* pneumonia. Rather, pneumonia is a complicated development out of something else -- sometimes even a common cold.
Indeed, in Great Britain, that was precisely how Queen Victoria's father died. The historical record has it that he caught a mere cold (perhaps by walking around in only stockings). At the time, it was thought that colds were caused by *ill humours in the blood*. So what did the British doctors do? They removed a pint of blood from the fellow, using leeches. Needless to say, it only aggravated his condition; pneumonia set in, and he soon died.
As with the Swedish prince, he would have been better off without doctors ...
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