Spencer Bidwell King III, MD

Kerry Spencer

The fall of tsarism in Russia in 1917 was the culmination of many factors. It is perhaps widely noted that Nicholas II was not suited to his role as Tsar, mainly due to his character and personality. Resentment of his wife and her involvement with the mystical Rasputin was also widespread and helped contribute to the collapse of the monarchy. Also the state of the country during World War One l...

Identification of the remains of King Richard III

In 2012, a skeleton was excavated at the presumed site of the Grey Friars friary in Leicester, the last-known resting place of King Richard III. Archaeological, osteological and radiocarbon dating data were consistent with these being his remains. Here we report DNA analyses of both the skeletal remains and living relatives of Richard III. We find a perfect mitochondrial DNA match between the s...

King George III and porphyria: an elemental hypothesis and investigation.

In 1969 it was proposed that the episodic madness suffered by King George III (1738-1820) resulted from an acute hereditary porphyria, variegate porphyria, caused by deficiency of protoporphyrinogen oxidase. The diagnosis was based on the historical archive and a contentious claim that living members of the House of Hanover were affected with the condition. A re-examination of the medical evide...

Adams of Fleet Street, instrument makers to King George III

the sectarian tradition. Firstly, Flemming considers a corpus of imperial rationalist or eclectic texts, which includes the work of Rufus of Ephesus, Aretaeus the Cappadocian, the pseudo-Galenic Introduction and Medical definitions, as well as the works of the authors called Anonymus Londinensis and Anonymus Parisinus. Secondly she studies the Gynaecology of Soranus of Ephesus, the only extant ...

Spencer-Attix Cavity Theory