The Battle of Bath

It was hard for basically any member of the british public to believe what had really happened. Most informed people believed an allied victory was almost a foregone conclusion. The prime minister received the news in the great spa town of bath, where he had gone to nurse his fragile health. By 18 o five, pitt was in near constant pain from gout, which he self treated, under the advice of doctors, with port wine. But it wasn't just his gout and remarkable alcohol consumption that was ailing him. His doctors diagnosed him with an excess of liver bile, which is to say that he was very sick, but they didn't really know what was wrong.