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‘The difficulty of estimating the psychical and mental illness of Henry VIII is due not only to the scantiness of available evidence, but also to the very different outlook and attitude towards life that prevailed as compared with modern times’. 57Medical science at that time was not sufficiently advanced to permit identification of some conditions. Contemporary letters that are still available were not usually written by, or to, physicians, but to ambassadors and other non-medical correspondents so any details of diseases are vague and unspecific.…”