Marie Antoinette Syndrome
Alexander A. Navarini, MD, PhD;
Stephan Nobbe, MD;
Ralph M. Trüeb, MD
Arch Dermatol. 2009;145(6):656.
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Marie Antoinette syndrome designates the condition in which scalp hair suddenly turns white. The name alludes to the unhappy Queen Marie Antoinette of France (1755-1793), whose hair allegedly turned white the night before her last walk to the guillotine during the French Revolution. She was 38 years old when she died. Although the actual incidence is rare, this stigmatizing phenomenon, which has captured storytellers' imagination like few other afflictions, occurs to protagonists as a sign of grave sorrow in religious texts as early as the Talmud. History also records that the hair of the English martyr Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) turned white overnight in the Tower of London before his execution. More modern accounts refer to the turning white of hair in survivors of bomb attacks during World War II. In 1957, an American dermatologist witnessed a 63-year-old . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Contact Dr Navarini at alexander.navarini@usz.ch and Dr Trüeb at ralph.trueeb@usz.ch.
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