Green Disease: Another Illness Laced With Past Misogyny
Between the mid-16thand former 20thcenturies , the green disease ( also known as greensickness , lover fever , or virgin disease ) was a gendered shape that was localise on young teenage girls who had legion symptom and sometimes a greenish hint or paleness to their hide . It was originally associated with virginity in1554 , when medico Johannes Lange first wrote about the disease . Although it was described before and after this date , he telephone it “ the disease of virgin ” ; this may have move it from a digestive disorder bear on anyone , as originally intend , to a experimental condition only establish in women ....