![]() When Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by The Ghost of Christmas Present, he is shown just. ![]() It is claimed that the character is based on the invalid son of a friend of Dickens who owned a cotton mill in Ardwick, Manchester. He is the youngest son of Bob Cratchit, and he uses a crutch to get around. I propose that Tiny Tim had distal renal tubular acidosis (type I). Timothy 'Tiny Tim' Cratchit is a character in the classic story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Such treatments with vitamin D and alkalinization with sodium bicarbonate and sodium citrate suggest the plausible speculation that Tiny Tim had renal tubular acidosis (type I), a disorder that is characterized by growth failure and, if left untreated, complicated by osteomalacia with pathologic fractures, hypokalemic muscle weakness and periodic paralysis, nephrocalcinosis leading to renal failure, and death. From review of pediatrics texts from 1830 to 1850, a recommended treatment plan would have included (1) general measures such as country air and exercise, and fish oils such as cod and halibut (vitamin D), and (2) specific treatments of tonics (containing combinations of belladonna, opium, sodium bicarbonate, sodium citrate, and potassium chloride) emphasizing alkalis, and splinting and bracing the limbs. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in I. Following the ghostly visitations, Scrooge vows to assist the struggling Cratchit family financially, thereby making available the best medical care money could buy. The bed was his own, the room was his own. From details of the original manuscript and the eight film versions, it is possible to construct a differential diagnosis for Tim's short stature, asymmetric crippling disorder, and curious intermittent weakness that would lead to his death, if untreated, within a period of 1 year. Yet the nature of Tiny Tim's multifaceted and implicitly reversible illness is a mystery and open to debate and speculation. "'He was not only very ill, but dying, then.One of the most endearing characters in English literature is Tiny Tim, the crippled son of Ebenezer Scrooge's clerk, Bob Cratchit.Tiny Tim dies because of the poverty he lives in.".and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father." -(S5).Scrooge helps the family and becomes a second father to Tiny Tim.Tiny Tim exemplifies the Christmas spirit. "Alas for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame!" -(S3) He is sick and has to use a crutch, but remains cheerful and patient."'.we recollect how patient and how mild he was.'" -Bob Cratchet to his family after Tim's death (S4)."Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God!" -(S4). ![]() "'He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.'" -Bob Cratchit to Mrs Cratchit (S3) Three ghosts take Scrooge through Christmases past, present and future.at the age of 10, and is best known for his roles as a child actor during the Golden Age of Hollywood, in films such as A Christmas Carol (1938) and Goodbye, Mr. "'God bless us every one!'" -Tiny Tim (S3) Kilburn (born 25 November 1926), known for his acting work prior to 1953 as Terry Kilburn, is an English-American actor.Born in London, he moved to Hollywood in the U.S. ![]() Scrooges death brings happiness: the miserly firm of Scrooge and Marley will be no more, and a couple trembling with fear that the. A Christmas Carol Tiny Tim Character Profile Both Scrooge and Tiny Tims death bring a change into the world. ![]()
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