In article , Stewart Robert Hinsley
writes
The disease is porphyria. The root is the Greek porphura, meaning
purple, from, IIRC, the colour of the skin in sufferers. Porphyrea is
the Botanical Latin derivation from the same root, presumably also
meaning purple. So, I assume, the link is the colour purple.


AH, oh, thanks for that, sorry to get the two confused

Janet
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