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A Charles Dickens Character With OSA?
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Re: A Charles Dickens Character With OSA?
It's true!!
Perhaps the best-known sleep apnea patient is Charles Dickens' Fat Joe character in "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club." He was an overweight, red-faced boy in a permanent state of sleepiness, who snored and breathed heavily. This coined the term "Pickwickian" syndrome, describing severe sleep apnea that causes reduced levels of breathing even during the day."
Apart from this 1836 publication, one may also refer to Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist (1838):
“Are you going to sit snoring there, all day?” inquired Mrs. Bumble.
“I am going to sit here, as long as I think proper, ma'am,” rejoined Mr. Bumble; “and although I was not snoring, I shall snore, gape, sneeze, laugh, or cry, as the humour strikes me; such being my prerogative.”
or to Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894):
"There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore"
Perhaps the best-known sleep apnea patient is Charles Dickens' Fat Joe character in "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club." He was an overweight, red-faced boy in a permanent state of sleepiness, who snored and breathed heavily. This coined the term "Pickwickian" syndrome, describing severe sleep apnea that causes reduced levels of breathing even during the day."
Apart from this 1836 publication, one may also refer to Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist (1838):
“Are you going to sit snoring there, all day?” inquired Mrs. Bumble.
“I am going to sit here, as long as I think proper, ma'am,” rejoined Mr. Bumble; “and although I was not snoring, I shall snore, gape, sneeze, laugh, or cry, as the humour strikes me; such being my prerogative.”
or to Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894):
"There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore"
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