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Carolina Skin and Laser, Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA.
Surv Ophthalmol. 2015 May-Jun;60(3):274-8. doi: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2014.09.001.
Jousting was a popular pastime for royalty in the Renaissance era. Injuries were common, and the eye was particularly at risk from the splinters of the wooden lance. On June 30, 1559, Henry II of France participated in a jousting tournament to celebrate two royal weddings. In the third match, Gabriel de Montgomery struck Henry on the right shoulder and the lance splintered, sending wooden shards into his face and right orbit. Despite being cared for by the prominent physicians Ambroise Paré and Andreas Vesalius, the king died 10 days later and was found to have a cerebral abscess. The wound was not explored immediately after the injury; nevertheless, wooden foreign bodies were discovered in the orbit at the time of autopsy. The dura had not been violated, suggesting that an infection may have traveled from the orbit into the brain. Nostradamus and Luca Guarico, the astrologer to the Medici family, had prophesied the death of Henry II of France, but he ignored their warnings and thus changed the course of history in Renaissance Europe.
马上枪术比赛是文艺复兴时期王室成员喜爱的消遣活动。在比赛中，参赛者常会受伤，而眼部尤其容易受到木制枪头碎片的伤害。1559 年 6 月 30 日，法国国王亨利二世参加了一场庆祝两场王室婚礼的马上枪术比赛。在第三场比赛中，加布里埃尔·德·蒙哥马利击中了亨利二世的右肩膀，枪头折断，木片碎片飞入他的面部和右眼眶。尽管有著名医生昂布瓦斯·帕雷和安德烈亚斯·维萨里照顾，国王还是在 10 天后去世，尸检发现他患有脑脓肿。受伤后并未立即探查伤口；然而，在尸检时发现了眼眶中的木质异物。硬脑膜没有受损，这表明感染可能从眼眶传播到大脑。诺查丹玛斯和卢卡·瓜里科，美第奇家族的占星家，曾预言法国国王亨利二世的死期，但他无视了他们的警告，从而改变了文艺复兴时期欧洲的历史进程。
