Posted by Jock on December 01, 2006 at 13:53:33 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: AR's Health posted by Rob Marshall on December 01, 2006 at 13:21:28:
It is well documented that AR had many medical problems... .
Most, if not all of these problems could today with current medical practice
be alleviated ,or cured leaving him with a more active life.
Would it have meant more stories or less.
AR was chronically short-sited. This was not diagnosed at his Windermere
school where the headmaster was very keen on boxing. Taking young AR's
refusal to parry the blows as cowardice (AR simply could not see them.)
he kept on putting AR into the ring. It is not inconceivable that AR suffered
some brain damage as a result. Maybe the long gestation period of his books
is evidence that this really occured.
These days, AR's short-sightedness would have been picked up much earlier.