Health
Feodora suffered from a lifetime of ill-health, believed to be porphyria, inherited from her maternal great-great-great-grandfather George III of the United Kingdom. That diagnosis followed medical tests carried out on her remains and those of her mother.
Read more about this topic: Princess Feodora Of Saxe-Meiningen
Famous quotes containing the word health:
“To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“I think that carrying a baby inside of you is like running as fast as you can. It feels like finally letting go and filling yourself up to the widest limits.”
—Anonymous Mother. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)
“Mens sana in men’s sauna, in the flush
Of health and toilets, private and corporal glee,”
—Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)