Talk:Hypochromic anemia

"Hypochromic" versus "Iron deficiency"
Can someone with relevant knowledge make the distinction (within the articles) between Hypochromic anemia and Iron deficiency anemia? -- Shunpiker 15:32, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Possible Cases of the Green Sickness
Perhaps someone can link well known (or any) cases of Hypochromic anemia to the article, to give a little more credence? The Green Children of Woolpit isn't really a proven case, but since it mentions green sickness, the actual page may as well mention them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Itsnatashadak (talk • contribs) 02:30, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

early history
Trying to make the first section reflect current thinking on the complex question of whether all these disease categories - chlorosis, hypochromic anaemia, greensickness, disease of virgins etc - are really 'the same thing' or overlapping ways of saying that female virgins are a problem! Fluff35 (talk) 16:07, 19 November 2016 (UTC)


 * If anybody has the time, they might like to follow up the following discussions of chlorosis/green sickness and its relationship to anaemia:


 * Dixon, Laurinda S. 1995. Perilous Chastity. Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.


 * Humphreys, Margaret. 1997. ‘Chlorosis: “The Virgin’s Disease”’. In Plague, Pox and Pestilence. Disease in History, ed. Kenneth F. Kiple. 160–5. London: Weidenfield and Nicolson.


 * King, Helen. 2004. The Disease of Virgins. Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty. London: Routledge. (Already referred to in the notes.)


 * Loudon, Irvine. 1984. ‘The diseases called chlorosis’. Psychological Medicine 14: 27–36.


 * Early 19th-century physician Marshall Hall (Marshall_Hall_(physiologist)) has a long chapter about chlorosis in his 1827 book Commentaries on Some of the More Important of the Diseases of Females. And he did NOT (p 53) regard 'greenness' as a major symptom! It's occasionally - like yellowness and slate-colour - present as a slight tinge to the simply pallid complexion. He even has a colour plate of a sufferer from chlorosis - she is not green. (Or is that original research?)


 * John O&#39;London (talk) 08:41, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Small red blood cell?
Can someone really confirm that the second paragraph that say this anemia also have small red blood cell, is meaning that this "Hypochromic anemia" does have red blood cell in its own term? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaybroom (talk • contribs) 16:02, 16 July 2018 (UTC)