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Clement VI had spent the worst weeks of the 1348 Avignon plague seated continuously between two large fires on the medical advice of his personal physician Guy de Chauliac. The fires worked, probably by the convection currents they generated keeping plague-carrying air away from the papal chair. Clement died of natural causes in December 1352, aged about 61.
Read the story →Guy de Chauliac served as personal physician to Popes Clement VI, Innocent VI, and Urban V at Avignon between 1342 and 1370. His *Chirurgia Magna* (1363) was the dominant European surgical textbook from the 14th century to the 17th — and contained the most detailed eyewitness account of the 1348 Black Death by a doctor who survived it.
Read the story →Pope Clement VI spent the Black Death sitting in a heated room in Avignon, protected by a wall of fire on the advice of his physician. He issued the bulls that tried to stop the massacres of Jews. They did not stop.
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