'Hogwarts Headaches -- Misery for Muggles'
junediamanti
june.diamanti at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Nov 2 15:33:41 UTC 2003
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Petra <ms_petra_pan at y...>
wrote:
> Have you read the following article?
>
> Harry Potter and the Reader's Poundage Headache
> Physician Advises Young Enthusiasts To Tome Down
> By Rob Stein
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Thursday, October 30, 2003; Page A03
>
> Excerpt:
>
> "Howard J. Bennett, a pediatrician in Northwest
> Washington, was alerted to the peril when three
> patients, ages 8 to 10, complained in June that
> they had been suffering from headaches for two
> or three days.
>
> "'In each case, the headache was dull and the
> pain fluctuated throughout the day,' Bennett
> wrote in a letter published in today's issue
> of the New England Journal of Medicine...
>
> "...'On further questioning, it was determined
> that each child had spent many hours reading
> J.K. Rowling's latest book in the Harry Potter
> series,' Bennett wrote in the letter, which
> journal editors titled 'Hogwarts Headaches --
> Misery for Muggles.'"
>
> The full article is at http://tinyurl.com/szwm
> (aka http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
> articles/A38025-2003Oct29.html)
>
> Petra
> a
> n :)
>
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