Note 1607 — Chapter XVII
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The attack was aggravated by a heavy cold taken while hunting so that Charles IX was compelled for a season to quarter himself in a small inn at Vitry. He was not scarred by the pox but he lost flesh alarmingly by reason of the illness and never recovered his health, and passed into quick consumption (cf. C. S. P. For., No. 1,229, November 18, 1573, Dr. Dale to Burghley).