Could modern medicine have saved King Henry VIII?

I doubt he would have died in his early fifties with modern medicine. There has been a lot of argument over Bluff King Hal's symptoms over the years. read more

While it is a chronic condition, early treatment often has a good prognosis. If Henry VIII had access to modern medicine, chances are good he would have been quite fine. He was known to be extremely careful of his health, to the best of Tudor knowledge. So, he would almost certainly have lived longer than his early fifties with modern medicine. read more

King Henry VIII is buried in his tomb in the quire of St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, along with nine other monarchs in the Chapel, and in the vault where his coffin lays, his third queen, Jane Seymour (who gave birth to his son, Edward VI) and King Charles I. read more

I remember seeing the Tudors miniseries, where Henry VIII has leg ulcers that the doctors can't cure. It appears that to cure them, modern doctors would use oxygen chambers and other contemporary technology. read more