The Meldorf Estate
The three of us did not meet the Teuton Council of Muniche until two weeks later due to rainy weather and Freia’s health. On our second day at the estate of Count von Meldorf, she caught a nasty flu and spent over a week trying to recover. The count brought a doctor from the city in to see her several times, but whether his ministrations helped was debatable. The doctor, an elderly hunchback with wild gray hair and a small beard, bled Freia using leeches three times and gave her herbs and honey, allegedly to aid in rebuilding her strength. The whole thing disgusted me completely. I felt that bleeding should be done with a knife rather than with a parasite when it needed to be done at all. But I could voice no objections, since I knew nothing about local medicine, so I s
