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Overview
Historical Perspective
The term Porphyria derives from the Greek πορφύρα, porphura, meaning "purple pigment". The name is likely to have been a reference to the purple discolouration of some body fluids in patients during an attack.[1] Although original descriptions are attributed to Hippocrates, the disease was first explained biochemically by Felix Hoppe-Seyler in 1874,[2] and acute porphyrias were described by the Dutch physician B.J. Stokvis in 1889.[3][1]