Chlorosis

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Now called iron deficiency anemia. Sydenham advised chalybeate (iron), specifically a treatment of iron filings combined with extract of wormwood made up into pills. Aka green sickness, febris alba, the virgin's disease, amatoria febris, icterus albus.

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