The name, "Pickwickian syndrome," originated from Dickens' description of a young servant named Joe, described in his first novel -- The Pickwick Papers. The term is still used to describe severely ...

THE associated features of marked obesity, somnambulance, muscular twitching, cyanosis, secondary polycythemia and hypertrophy and failure of the right ventricle have been described 1–5 and termed the ...

Categorized as above there appears in this issue of the Journal an article describing the clinical picture to which a previous writer is said to have attached "the startling appellation 'Pickwickian ...

An engraving of Charles Dickens taken from a photograph in 1861. Most people were exposed to the writings of Charles Dickens in high school. In my case, it was A Tale of Two Cities and Great ...

Taft had two signs of OSA: excessive daytime somnolence and snoring. He may also have been polycythemic: his face was described as "ruddy" [13(p161)] and "florid." [6(p159),9,39(p28)] Systemic ...

An engraving of Charles Dickens taken from a photograph in 1861. What does English author Charles Dickens, the man who wrote A Christmas Carol and who described marvelous characters like Tiny Tim, ...