 'Plucky, ailing Tiny Tim is one of the most enduring characters to
come out of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella "A Christmas Carol." But
Dickens never explains why Tiny Tim wears leg braces and uses a crutch,
nor does he make clear what will kill the young boy if the miserly
Ebenezer Scrooge doesn't change his ways. Now, a medical doctor
thinks he has the answer. According to Russell Chesney, a physician at
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital at the University of Tennessee Health
Science Center in Memphis, Tiny Tim suffered from a combination of
rickets and tuberculosis'. Many thanks to Huffington Post. For the full story, do read on: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/tiny-tim-disability-blamed-on-tuberculosis-rickets_n_1323383.html |
