King George III suffered from an illness called porphyria. The cause of this mental illness is that it is hereditary. It stems from an enzyme deficiency that cause the urine of the patient to be a bluish purple and for the patient to have temporary times of mental illness. Some of the symptoms that were displayed by King George madness, anger, depression, happiness. Most of the doctors of the time just felt that he was mad. The doctors of the time had no understanding of his disease

The King experienced two kinds of treatments. He first endured the painful treatment of common medicine of the time. He was burned, blistered, bleed, purged, and was put under sedation. All of these treatments were in the hope that the king would be