green sicknessn.

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxxv There be .iii. kyndes of this infyrmyte which be to saye the yelowe Jawnes the blacke Jawnes, and y^e grene sicknes named Agriaca.

1580 T. Bright Treat. Sufficiencie Eng. Med. (new ed.) 23 Hath God so dispensed his blessinges, that a medicine to cure the iawndyes, or the greene sickenesse, or the Rheume, or such like, shoulde coste more oftentimes then one quarter of the substance that the patient is worth?

1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 8 His daughter beeing at the age of twentie yeeres, would..fall into the greene sicknes for want of a husband.

a1607 J. Rainolds Prophesie Haggai (1649) iv. 53 Like them that are troubled with the greene sicknesse.

1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper iv. i. 43 Languishing Maids in the Green sickness.

1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 225 The Pulse in the Green-Sickness beats 90.

1746 R. James in Moffett & Bennet's Health's Improvem. (new ed.) Introd. 21 The Mischief that young Girls do themselves, who are inclined to..the green Sickness, by taking great Quantities of Chalk, Lime, and other Absorbents.

1846 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 385 She..had quite lately had the green sickness.

1879 Family Physician 809 This condition, known as chlorosis or green sickness, is readily controlled by the use of iron.

1929 Lancet 2 Nov. 937/2 Chlorosis is now so rarely seen that there must be those among students and medical men of fairly recent standing who wonder whether the whole syndrome of green sickness was not a figment of the imagination of the earlier clinicians.

1971 K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic i. 6 The well-known ‘green sickness’ in young women, to which contemporaries gave a sexual meaning, was chlorosis, anaemia produced by lack of iron in the diet, stemming from upper-class disdain for fresh vegetables.

2001 H. King Dis. of Virgins i. 30 Another symptom—the skin colour of the sufferer..—remains a problem for historians of the disease of virgins, green sickness and chlorosis.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. R3^v It will then appeare..whose wit hath the greene sicknes.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 90 A kind of male greene sicknes . View more context for this quotation

a1658 J. Cleveland Antiplatonic in Wks. (1687) 12 Virtue's no more in Womankind But the Green sickness of the Mind.

a1680 S. Butler Mercurius Menippeus (1682) 7 What a desperate Green-sickness is the Land fallen into, thus to doat on Coals, and Dirt, and such Rubbish Divinity?

1719 J. Barker Exilius (ed. 2) I. ii. 59 This Passion is the Green Sickness of the Mind, making us swallow Notions pernicious to our Quiet.

1829 Times 20 Apr. 2/6 The sun has made no golden set; and his sister luminary, wading through a watery sky, evidently labours under an access of green sickness, with the exception of one corner of her disc.

1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 104 There is some meaning in the old theory of wild oats; and a man who has not had his greensickness and got done with it for good, is as little to be depended upon as an unvaccinated infant.

1932 H. Ashton Bricks & Mortar vii. 134 He had collected a disappointing set of friends... Stacy declared their greensickness to be a familiar symptom. ‘There's plenty of that kind of thing about,’ she declared disdainfully, ‘and Aubrey was sure to pick it up.’

a1946 C. Carswell Lying Awake (1950) xiv. 138 Youth..is the season of green sickness, of ill-assurance, of desperate melancholies, of the agonies of misprised love.

2002 W. Fiennes Snow Geese (2003) iv. 121 How often do beautiful maidens and handsome youths, caught in the toils of love, grow ghastly pale and waste away, consumed by melancholy, green-sickness, or erotomania?

1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen 176 Never did Green-sickness'd Girl long with half so much earnestness for Chalk or Oatmeal.

c1720 Bp. Rundle in Butler Life Hildesley (1799) 185 Thy [sc. Sir R. Steele's] works will..cure all the green-sicknessed appetites that will seize on the gay and young, without so friendly a cordial.