1. 1. Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988), p. 7.
2. In my edition of The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart (New York: OUP, 1994), pp. 96–100; references to Stuart’s letters are indicated by L.A.S. and letter number.
3. Ida Macalpine, Richard Hunter and C. Rimington, ‘Porphyria in the Royal Houses of Stuart, Hanover, and Prussia: a Follow-up Study of George III’s Illness’, in Porphyria — A Royal Malady: Articles Published in or Commissioned by the British Medical Journal (London: British Medical Association, 1968), p. 23.
4. Isabel Allende describes her daughter’s death from porphyria in Paula, trans. Margaret Sayers Peden (Thorndike, Maine: Hall, 1995). Allende imagines a sorcerer who has put a time bomb in a young girl’s body that everyone forgets until she is 28 and it goes off, p. 82.
5. Attallah Kappas, Shigeru Sassa, Richard A. Galbraith and Yves Nordmann, ‘The Porphyrias’, in The Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease, ed. Charles R. Scriver et al., (7th edn; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995), vol. 2, pp. 2103–59; and Jennifer B. Jeans et al., ‘Mortality in Patients with Acute Intermittent Porphyria Requiring Hospitalization: a United States Case Series’, American Journal ofMedical Genetics, 65 (1996), 269–73.