“Charles Dickens: Impact on Medicine and Society” by Meir Kryger talks about how Charles Dickens novels have had a significant impact on the medical field. Meir Kryger debates that Charles Dickens had an important role in the development of sleep medicine and founding obesity syndromes. Kryger uses passages from Dickens novel The Pickwick Papers to support his argument. In The Pickwick Papers, one of the characters displayed symptoms of pickwickian syndrome and obese hypoventilation syndrome, both of these syndromes were not yet recorded in medical literature. Kryger’s argument revealed how influential Charles Dickens is. Charles Dickens discussed syndromes that only go into medical literature more than 120 years after the publication of The
