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Other clinical descriptions in Dickens' novels are varied and comprehensive enough to make a case book: the post-concussional state of Eugene Wrayburn in Our Mutual Friend, the fatal cerebral vascular disease of Mr. Dorrit in Little Dorrit, the chronic hypomania of the stranger who made advances to Mrs. Nickleby over the garden wall in Nicholas Nickleby. In at least one instance Dickens got the jump on the medical profession: the first recorded instance of the association of narcolepsy (uncontrollable desire to sleep) with obesity occurs in the fat boy of Pickwick Papers...
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