Remember: it was in May 2015. French, British and American researchers had had fun evaluating the state of health of Tintin, the hero of our childhood. In the end, they determined that the journalist with the powder puff had gone through 244 health problems, including 6 hospitalizations, 2 surgeries, 84 concussions and … 55 attempted homicides. And all this before the age of 20.
French researchers repeated the feat, this time with Captain Haddock. Out of 23 adventures of Tintin, the famous captain appears in only 15 albums (he indeed meets Tintin in The Crab with the Golden Claws, published for the first time in 1941) which scientists have carefully examined.
Verdict? Archibald Haddock went through 249 health issues in 15 adventures, an average of 16 per album, anyway. It’s much more than his sidekick! The researchers identified 193 traumatic problems – mainly head trauma, as well as 56 non-traumatic problems.
Alcohol and tobacco: the two vices of the captain
THE’alcoholism of the captain is flagrant: “Haddock undoubtedly suffers from a alcoholic cirrhosis », Specifies Professor Eric Caumes of Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris. However, the share of health problems attributable to drunkenness drops from 58.3% during the Golden Claw Crab to 10% towards the end of the adventures. “He gradually went from being a sea captain, a proven alcoholic, to that of a squire, to a more mundane alcoholism”, analyze the researchers.
Another addiction, tobacco: researchers have listed 12 burns, including 10 caused by the captain’s pipe. And poor Haddock is also prone to mosquito bites, jet-lag, sleep disorders … The least we can say is that he has an iron health.
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