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This review is concerned with the nature of the recurrent mental ill health of King George III (1738–1820), reinvestigation of the widely accepted belief that he suffered from acute porphyria, how this unlikely diagnosis was obtained and, in particular, why it has gained so much unwarranted support.
15 Απρ 2013 · In recent years, though, it has become fashionable among historians to put his "madness" down to the physical, genetic blood disorder called porphyria. Its symptoms include aches and pains, as...
23 Ιουλ 2005 · In 1969 it was proposed that the episodic madness suffered by King George III (1738–1820) resulted from an acute hereditary porphyria, variegate porphyria, caused by deficiency of protoporphyrinogen oxidase.
In 1969 it was proposed that the episodic madness suffered by King George III (1738–1820) resulted from an acute hereditary porphyria, variegate porphyria, caused by deficiency of protoporphyrinogen oxidase.
George III was a kind of consecrated obstructionist. On 8 January 1966, the British Medical Journal published a paper by Doctors Ida MacAlpine and her son, Richard Hunter, entitled ‘The Insanity of King George III: A Classic Case of Porphyria’.
1 Ιουν 2011 · Recent research of George III's extensive medical records has shown that Macalpine and Hunter were highly selective in their reporting and interpretation of his signs and symptoms and that the diagnosis of the acute porphyria cannot be sustained.
1 Δεκ 2009 · In his otherwise scholarly article on the origins of The Lancet, Professor Jones has in an aside propagated the myth that George III had ‘porphyria-induced madness’. 1
