What's in a name? Mr. Dickens' "Pickwickian" fat boy syndrome

Obes Res. 1994 Jul;2(4):380-3. doi: 10.1002/j.1550-8528.1994.tb00079.x.

Author

G A Bray¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medicine, LSU School of Medicine and Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Road. Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA.

PMID: 16353586
DOI: 10.1002/j.1550-8528.1994.tb00079.x

No abstract available

Publication types

Comment
Historical Article

MeSH terms

England
History, 19th Century
Humans
Medicine in Literature*
Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome / diagnosis
Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome / history*
Sleep* / physiology
Terminology as Topic