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Saturday, July 23, 2005
| Category: Madness King George the III was widely believed to be bonkers: The generally accepted theory has been that his fits of insanity -- the best documented lasting from October 1788 to February 1789 and triggering a constitutional crisis -- were due to a genetic disorder that caused variegate porphyria.It seems now, though, that the porphyric attacks were exacerbated by the amount of arsenic the doctors had been feeding him. Are doctors good for us? [Warning: the link does not play well with non-dominant browsers] |
