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November 22 – The doctor who treated Anne Boleyn when she had sweating sickness

| November 22, 2022

November 22 – The doctor who treated Anne Boleyn when she had sweating sickness

On this day in Tudor history, 22nd November 1545, in the reign of King Henry VIII, Sir William Butts died after suffering from a “dooble febre quartanz”, a form of malaria. Sir William Butts was a royal physician and Henry VIII sent him to Hever Castle in 1528 to treat his sweetheart Anne Boleyn when […]

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