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Medal, 1789, AR, KING GEORGE III RECOVERY SILVER MEDAL, RESTORED TO HEALTH, Great Britain, BHM-311; DH Middlesex-179; Eimer-827, NGC MS61, Cert# 3593210-031. Silver medal by J.-P. Droz, Laureate Bust right; Rv. Snake Entwined around Tripod/Blazing Altar, Olive Branch and Globe below, Size: 35mm, Weight: 20.66g. Attractive High Relief and Almost Certainly a Proof Issue. History: By November 1788 most of his subjects believed their king, George III (reigned 1760-1820), to have gone mad. George suffered from prolonged bouts of delirium. Queen Charlotte was at first forced to seek refuge from her husband in a distant part of Windsor Castle before he was removed to Kew. His anger at this incarceration made his condition untreatable by his doctors and, in December, the Revd Francis Willis, who ran an insane asylum in Lincolnshire, was called in. From January 1789 the King's health gradually improved and Willis was credited with the cure. His illness has subsequently been diagnosed as porphyria. In 1789. On 23 April, a service was held at Saint Paul's Cathedral in London to give thanks for his recovery as part of a day of celebration. It was attended, amid cheering crowds, by the King, the Queen and royal family, by both Houses of Parliament and the Corporation of London. The Society of Patrons decided to strike a variety of Medals to commemorate both the renewed good health of the monarch and their part in its celebration.