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Idiopathic Hypochromic Anaemia in Males

1954; BMJ; Volume: 2; Issue: 4893 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.2.4893.908

0959-8138

J. Forshaw,

Iron Metabolism and Disorders

Idiopathic hypochromic anaemia is a disease which occurs mainly in females, and its incidence in males appears to be very low.Chlorosis was thought to occur almost entirely in young females, but the following quotations suggest that Shakespeare was aware of the possibility that the disease might appear in males.In Antony and Cleopatra, iii, ii, 4: Caesar is sad; and Lepidus, Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled With the green sickness.and in II King Henry IV, iv, iii, 96, referring to Prince John:There's never none of these demure boys come to any proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood, and making many fish-meals, thlat they fall into a kind of male green-sickness.