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- Mania, or harmful euphoria, is at one end of a spectrum of mood disorders, with sadness, or depression, at the other. George's being in a manic state would also match contemporary descriptions of his illness by witnesses. They spoke of his "incessant loquacity" and his habit of talking until the foam ran out of his mouth.
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May 17, 2023 · Much more recently, a team of researchers at St George’s, University of London, countered that George III’s madness was not caused by porphyria but was simply a version of severe mental...
Author: Polly Putnam. George III had four prolonged periods of illness during his reign. Despite his achievements, he is perhaps most commonly referred to as ‘The Mad King’ – an unhelpful phrase that undermines the extent of his deeply traumatic ailments, and ignores his physical symptoms.
Apr 15, 2013 · However, a new research project based at St George's, University of London, has concluded that George III did actually suffer from mental illness after all. Using the evidence of...
- First Evidence? Spring, 1765
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- A Sympathetic Observer
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- Service of Thanksgiving 23 April 1789
- Picturing The ‘Mad’ King
GEO MAIN/58: Minute taken at the Ministerial meeting of April 5th, 1765 on the proposed regency Interpretations of King George III’s mental illness have regularly referred to a period in the spring of 1765 when the king may have been suffering from a combination of upper respiratory illness that triggered a depressive episode. The importance of thi...
MED 16/14, 78-80: Doctors’ reports on the king’s condition to the Prince of Wales, 25 December 1788 and 15 February 1789 Among the most important medical papers held in the Georgian paper archives are the daily bulletins written for the Prince Regent by the team of doctors who treated George III for his various episodes of mental illness (MED 16). ...
RCIN 1047014: Journal of Robert Fulke Greville. Volume 2, Oct. 1788 – 4 Mar. 1789: first page and entry for 3 March 1789. Robert Fulke Greville (1751-1824) was the second son of the Earl of Warwick, who embarked on a military career after studying at the University of Edinburgh. By 1777 he was a lieutenant-colonel in the 1st Foot Guards, a position...
Among the challenging features of interpreting the king’s mental illness is getting a clearer picture of his family during his most acute episodes. In this letter of early December, 1788, when other evidence suggests the king was in such a terrible — and declining — state that within days a new doctor (Francis Willis) was called in to attend the ca...
One measure of the attention paid to addressing public concern for the king’s health is the fanfare surrounding his recovery. While the king was ill, public prayers were offered for his recovery. In November 1788 the Archbishop of Canterbury had required a prayer for the king’s health be added to the liturgy. As the king began to recover, in late F...
Anyone who has seen a good production of Alan Bennett’s play The Madness of George III(not least that at Nottingham Playhouse in 2018) or the film version directed by Nicholas Hytner with its virtuoso performance from Nigel Hawthorne as the king, will have a very clear image of the ‘mad king’ imprinted in their memory. This can perhaps serve to obs...
Yet it turns out that this conclusion was based on a highly selective list of the king’s symptoms, which Ida Macalpine and her son Richard Hunter, both psychiatrists, presented in the 1960s,...
Dec 9, 2019 · The ‘disinhibiting’ aspect of mental illness combined with the strict protocols associated with royalty might let us explore George’s own sense of his identity even at moments, in his periods of illness, when it was most vulnerable.
Unfortunately medical details are not available for the 1765 episode: Macalpine and Hunter claimed that the illness was a porphyric chest infection, others have indicated that the King had some mental health problems.3,6 It was certainly of concern and after his recovery there were extensive discussions on a potential regent as at that time his ...
