Medieval medical theory blamed Jewish paleness on an excess of blood.

Evidence

According to an early fourteenth-century text, the paleness of the Jews was due to their “superfluidity of gross blood,” which made the men bleed “from their anuses” and caused them to appear “sad, antisocial, pallid.” — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 532

Categorization

• DEFINE: Documents the pseudoscientific ‘medical’ mechanism invented to naturalize the Jewish monster — the same manufacturing process the reader studies in the Muslim case.