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King charles 2 of spain1/27/2024 ![]() Please Read and Understand the Rules Before Contributing. Report Comments That Break Reddiquette or the Subreddit Rules. Serious On-Topic Comments Only: No Jokes, Anecdotes, Clutter, or other Digressions. Provide Primary and Secondary Sources If Asked. Write Original, In-Depth and Comprehensive Answers, Using Good Historical Practices. Questions should be clear and specific in what they ask, and should be able to get detailed answers from historians whose expertise is likely to be in particular times and places. Nothing Less Than 20 Years Old, and Don't Soapbox. Be Nice: No Racism, Bigotry, or Offensive Behavior. Downvote and Report comments that are unhelpful or grossly off-topic.Upvote informative, well sourced answers.Van Kerrebroeck concluded that a combination of sexual inversion and fragile X was the most likely correct diagnosis, yielding the extraordinary symptoms that Charles II suffered with his entire life.New to /r/AskHistorians? Please read our subreddit rules and FAQ before posting! Apply for Flair Sexual Inversion: male phenotype, XX karyotype with anomalous translocation of Y to X.Small size, ambiguous genitalia, hypospadias and testicular atrophy.True hermaphroditism: expression of ovarian and testicular tissue, most commonly 46-XX/46-XY/47-XXY mosaicism, an intra-abdominal ovary (unconfirmed in the case of Charles II), cryptorchid testicle, hypospadias.Fragile X syndrome: a cause of 30% mental retardation, a long face, prominent ears and macrophelia, joint slackness, hyperextensibility and muscular hypotonia.Klinefelter syndrome: which includes small testicles and a short penis, 47-XY/47-XXY.Van Kerrebroeck postulated that Charles’s condition tended towards true hermaphroditism, though he was most probably XX male. He probably had an intersexual state with ambiguous genitalia, and a congenital monokidney with stones and infections.” Van Kerrebroeck used this description to paint a clinical picture: “We can conclude that Carlos suffered from posterior hypospadias, monorchism and an atrophic testicle. After his death, just short of his fortieth birthday, a rudimentary autopsy was performed, with the following results: “a very small heart, lungs corroded, intestines putrefactive and gangrenous, three large stones in the kidney, a single testicle black as coal, and his head full of water.” ![]() Intellectually stunted, his thirty-year rule was ineffective and dominated by the absence of heirs.ĭespite being married twice, Charles II produced no offspring. Throughout his childhood he was extremely fragile and developmentally challenged. The result of several generations of royal inbreeding, Charles II was already born with several difficulties. Instructed to speak on the “urological problems in Spanish Royalty”, Van Kerrebroeck began with some trepidation in a room full of historically-minded Spaniards.īeginning with a general background on some of the Spanish dynasties of the Middle Ages, the focus soon lay on the extraordinary case of Charles II, the last and heirless Habsburg King of Spain. Philip Van Kerrebroeck (NL) that raised the most eyebrows among the audience. What emerged was a changing perspective of the artist from participant in erotic scenes to being a spectator in his later years. Schultheiss (DE), EAU History Office Chairman, discussed the hypersexuality that is evident in the works of Pablo Picasso. Remigio Vela Navarrete (ES) looked at the discovery and spread of syphilis, in the New World and in Europe in the early 16 th Century. Three presentations were given in the space of an hour, each highlighting a different national urological topic. ![]() In addition to the poster sessions, in which research into the history of our field were presented, a special, in-depth “Hispanic Urological Tales” session took place on Saturday, 21 March.
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