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Orwell's writings probably influenced by TB, infertility
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| News Date | Tuesday, October 25, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | New York, Oct 25 (IANS) George Orwell, whose works like 'Animal Farm' and '1984' dwelt on malaises afflicting modern society, may have been influenced by his own physical ailments, says a scientific study.
The new study, by John Ross of the Boston-based Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Centre, checked Orwell's medical records against passages from the master's works. The research is to be published in the Dec 1 issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The India-born author was a sickly child, suffering multiple bouts of bronchitis and other respiratory ailments. As a young man, he had several episodes of bacterial pneumonia, and also contracted dengue fever during his time in Burma.
Perhaps due to his childhood respiratory illnesses, Orwell developed bronchiectasis, a condition characterised by perpetually dilated bronchi and fits of coughing.
In 1938, Orwell went to a sanatorium because he was coughing up blood, and was eventually diagnosed with tuberculosis.
He could have been infected in his childhood in India, as a police officer in Myanmar, as a soldier in Spain, or 'during...years of tramping, poverty, and vagabondage' in France and England, Ross notes in his paper. |
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