The Mysterious Medical Case of Don Carlos

This story has everything: medicine, miracles and medieval madness + one of the world’s first robots that STILL works

When Don Carlos, the heir to the Spanish throne, was dying from a head injury in 1562, doctors tried trepanation (drilling into his skull). It didn’t work - he went blind and was on his deathbed.

Then they placed a 100-year-old corpse of a saint in bed with him. The next day he was cured.

The king was so grateful for his son’s recovery that he ordered his clockmaker to create