In June 1272, in the Crusader city of Acre Edward I of England survived an assassination attempt when a Saracen stabbed him on the hip with a poisoned dagger. One version suggests Edward’s wife Eleanor who saved him by sucking out the poison with her mouth. Another account says that an English surgeon was called in to operate on Edward, and he proceeded to cut away the inflected flesh around the wound.

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