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The authors coined the condition "Pickwickian syndrome" after the character Joe from Dickens' The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837), who was markedly obese and tended to fall asleep uncontrollably during the day. [14] This report, however, was preceded by other descriptions of hypoventilation in obesity.
The term "Pickwickian syndrome" that is sometimes used for the syndrome was coined by the famous early 20th-century physician William Osler, who must have been a reader of Charles Dickens. The description of Joe, "the fat boy" in Dickens's novel The Pickwick Papers, is an accurate clinical picture of an adult with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
Pickwickian syndrome, a medical disease named from the Dickens novel; Don Pickwick (1925–2004), Welsh footballer; Eleazer Pickwick (1748 or 1749–1837), British businessman; Pickwick Book Shop, a defunct bookshop in Hollywood, California
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