What disease has inspired the writers to write books about vampires?
Source:still from the film "Dracula" in 1931
I Remember in the early 2000-ies were especially popular books and movies . Right now we can recall a great many devoted to the topic of films of those times, among which are the action and the sensational . And it all started with the fact that in the late nineteenth century writer Bram Stoker wrote the novel "Dracula" about the mysterious count of being a vampire. In his creation he described in detail that the victims of the drinkers had malaise, paleness, constant fatigue and shortness of breath. Researchers from Denmark decided to find out what kind of disease inspired the author of the legendary novel and found that it clearly described the symptoms of one of the most dangerous types of cancer, which today thousands of people die.
In Addition to Bram Stoker's writing stories about vampires have been and other writers of the XIX century. For example, they include the author of the novel "the Vampire" by John Polidori and the Irish writer Sheridan Le fanyu, gave the world the novel "Camille". Scientists have extensively studied the work of all three writers and identified symptoms that met the victims described in the novels of vampires. The results of the study shared edition .
Dracula even appeared in the cartoon Batman
the sick victim of the vampires?
The Researchers found that in his novel "the Vampire" by John Polidori described the two victims, but did not tell about what was happening to their organisms changes. In the novel Camilla by Sheridan Le fanyu described women who, after the vampire bite began to lose weight, to fade, to feel pain in the chest, hard to breathe, and to fight fever. Most of all, oddly enough, tried Bram Stoker in "Dracula", where he mentioned the ailments of the victims, pallor, fatigue, and shortness of breath chugoshvili.
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After Analyzing all these symptoms, the researchers first suggested that when writing his novels, the authors could describe or bacterial infection of the lungs. Only these diseases in the nineteenth century was already well known, but fictional doctor from the novels did not put such diagnoses, none of which applied to the victims. In addition, when lung infection in humans, emerged coughing and many other symptoms, which in the stories is not a word.
But all these changes in organisms fictional characters occur in patients with leukemia. This is a very dangerous type of cancer that attacks white blood cells of human and occurs in the bone marrow. Cancer cells interfere with the production of white blood cells, which causes anemia and increased vulnerability to infections.
Most Likely, the authors of the first novels about vampires described the symptoms of this terrible disease, which struck the humans of those times. But then the doctors the disease was not known, so the writers have a great opportunity to link a mysterious illness with mysticism, that is, from the bites of vampires. Today leukemia scientists are well known and from it developed a variety of medications and . But modern writers of novels and films about vampires still describe victims of bloodsuckers as pale, thin and feeble people.
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