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362 FREDERIKSBORG. Chap. XXIV.
health and ailments with a most motherly interest.
He sends medicine for Prince Christian to Antvorskov,
“ Christellinum Tartari,” when he is sick, but cannot
get the pomegranates. “ The doctor ought to have
such things with him, particularly as his journey is
paid ; that is what we keep him for, and nothing else.”
He thanks God the measles are well out; should the
children catch the small-pox they are to be placed
separate from Kirstine Munk, his “ heart’s dear Kirsten,”
as he now" terms her; and do not forget to tell the
“ little drummer-boy ” he must not go into their room.
When the hofmesterin complain that the food given to
the children is not as good as it should be, he orders it
to be “ looked intoand, afterwards, a new clerk of the
kitchen is engaged (he had trouble enough in getting a
cook), who is ^required to take a solemn oath “ to keep
a truthful account of fish, butter, flesh, &c., and to see
that no followers are allowed in the kitchen, or broken
victuals carried out into the town.”
But, melancholy to relate, the children of Christian
IV. scarcely appreciated the paternal anxiety of their
father, as regards their health, greater far than that of
mere common mortals; for I find a letter in which he
writes word >—
“ As Doctor Arsenins thinks it proper that Duke Ulrik
and Frederic shall take medicine, and I hear they
do not like it, and do not take it with a good will
(twenty-four pills before breakfast is the favourite
prescription of a modern Danish Esculapius),* and as I
* The early Danish doctors were nothing to speak of. The remedies
of a certain Master Henno Harpestreng, a very celebrated physician of
his day, are published ; where, among all manner of “dragon’s blood
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