Royal Wounds: When Treatment Kills — The King Charles II Lesson
In this episode of Diabetic Fudge Files' Royal Wounds series, Dr. G examines the final illness of King Charles II to show how aggressive, theory-driven treatments like bloodletting, purging, and blist...
5 Jan 15min
Royal Wounds: Royal Bleed: Alexei Romanov, Hemophilia, and an Empire in Peril
In this episode of Diabetic Foot Files — Royal Wound Series, we examine Alexei Romanov's hemophilia B, tracing how an X‑linked clotting deficiency shaped his life and destabilized a dynasty. We explai...
5 Jan 19min
Royal Wounds: Queen Victoria’s Case and the Calf Pump
This episode uses Queen Victoria as a clinical mirror to explain how immobility leads to venous hypertension, edema, skin breakdown, and chronic venous leg ulcers. It covers the classic triad—venous h...
4 Jan 14min
Royal Wounds: King George III, Stress Biology, and Diabetic Foot Healing
This episode examines King George III's documented episodes of severe mental illness and modern re-evaluation (bipolar disorder vs porphyria), then connects the biology of stress—HPA axis, cortisol, a...
4 Jan 20min
Royal Wounds: How Louis XIV's Anal Fistula Changed Surgery
This episode explores King Louis XIV's chronic infections, his catastrophic anal abscess and fistula, and the brutal pre-anesthesia surgery that ultimately saved him and advanced surgical practice acr...
30 Dec 202518min
Royal Wounds Episode 2: Napoleon, Boots and the Truth About Pressure Ulcers
Dr. G explores how unrelieved pressure — not just diabetes or infection — can destroy tissue, using Napoleon Bonaparte’s chronic foot pain, stiff military boots, and relentless marching as a historica...
30 Dec 202516min
Klebsiella in the Wound: The Capsule Cancer Threat to Diabetic Feet
This episode of Diabetic Foot Files focuses on Klebsiella pneumoniae as an emerging and dangerous pathogen in diabetic foot ulcers, highlighting its capsule, biofilm formation, and rising antimicrobia...
22 Dec 202528min
Royal Wounds Series : Was King Henry VIII Diabetic?
In this episode of Diabetic Foot Files Dr. G opens the mini-series "Royal Wounds" by asking whether King Henry VIII’s notorious, years-long lower-leg wounds were due to diabetes, venous disease, or a ...
21 Dec 202523min
