in the christmas carol what was wrong with tiny tim
Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol) Dickens did not explicitly say what Tiny Tim's illness was. However, renal tubular acidosis (type 1), which is a type of kidney failure causing the blood to become acidic, has been proposed as one possibility,[5] another being rickets (caused by a lack of Vitamin D).[5] Either illness was treatable during Dickens' lifetime, but fatal if not treated, thus following in line with the comment of the Ghost of Christmas Present that Tiny Tim would die "only if the present remain unchanged".