Well, I learned the story from you for the first time, and then saw it on tumblr, so...
Well, I learned it in high school [ETA: not literally in my terrible school, as you know, but during that period when I was reading everything on the 18th century I could get my hands on at the public and occasionally university library], so...*facepalm*
MacDonogh mentions it, citing both Thiebault and a 1997 article in the endnote to this paragraph. Now, Thiebault I would believe (despite his reliability issues, he did know Fritz for twenty years), but unfortunately, I'm not seeing coffee with mustard on the page cited (he says everything had to be very spicy, even the soup, but nothing about coffee), which means it may come from:
Hans-Joachim Neumann, ‘Friedrich der Grosse: ein medizinhistorischer Beitrag über seine Krankheiten und seine ärzte’, in Mitteilungen des Vereins für die Geschichte Berlins, July 1997,
if anyone has access to that.
Also, I'll now start a more thorough Nicolai reread after my hasty browsing
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Re: Glasow: the Nicolai version
Date: 2021-02-25 01:33 pm (UTC)Well, I learned it in high school [ETA: not literally in my terrible school, as you know, but during that period when I was reading everything on the 18th century I could get my hands on at the public and occasionally university library], so...*facepalm*
MacDonogh mentions it, citing both Thiebault and a 1997 article in the endnote to this paragraph. Now, Thiebault I would believe (despite his reliability issues, he did know Fritz for twenty years), but unfortunately, I'm not seeing coffee with mustard on the page cited (he says everything had to be very spicy, even the soup, but nothing about coffee), which means it may come from:
Hans-Joachim Neumann, ‘Friedrich der Grosse: ein medizinhistorischer Beitrag über seine Krankheiten und seine ärzte’, in Mitteilungen des Vereins für die Geschichte Berlins, July 1997,
if anyone has access to that.
Also, I'll now start a more thorough Nicolai reread after my hasty browsing
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