Porphyria and King George III The British monarch at the time of the American Revolution is generally believed to have been insane. In the light of modern knowledge it seems that he suffered from ...
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The Lincolnshire physician who treated King George III's madnessKing George III ruled over Great Britain and Ireland ... In the 1960s, psychologists theorised his mental illness may have been due to porphyria, though this diagnosis has been challenged by ...
But life for the king was far from idyllic. George's first attack of madness --actually the rare blood disorder porphyria ... In 1820, George III died at the age of 82, blind, deaf, and delusional.
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