Editing Michael Foot (section)

== Health ==

Foot suffered from [[asthma]] (which disqualified him from service in the [[Second World War]]) and [[eczema]].<ref name="Times obit">{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7048130.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524010215/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7048130.ece|archive-date=24 May 2010|title=Michael Foot, Labour Party Leader (obituary)|work=The Times |location=London|date=4 March 2010|access-date=15 August 2010|first=Mark|last=Henderson}}</ref>

In October 1963, he was involved in a car crash, suffering pierced lungs, broken ribs, and a broken left leg. Foot used a [[walking stick]] for the rest of his life.<ref name="Telegraph obit">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/7359721/Michael-Foot.html|title=Michael Foot (obituary)|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=3 March 2010|access-date=15 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306123556/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/7359721/Michael-Foot.html|archive-date=6 March 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> According to former MP [[Tam Dalyell]], Foot had, up until the accident, been a [[chain-smoker]], but he gave up the habit thereafter.<ref name="Mirror, Obit" >{{cite news
  |first=Jason  |last=Beattie
  |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/2010/03/04/michael-foot-was-the-heart-and-soul-of-labour-and-a-giant-of-the-movement-even-his-enemies-will-mourn-115875-22084002/
  |newspaper=[[Daily Mirror]]  |location=London
  |title=Michael Foot was the heart and soul of Labour and a giant of the movement – even his enemies will mourn
  |date=4 April 2010
  |access-date=15 August 2010
  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706020609/http://www.mirror.co.uk/2010/03/04/michael-foot-was-the-heart-and-soul-of-labour-and-a-giant-of-the-movement-even-his-enemies-will-mourn-115875-22084002/|archive-date=6 July 2010|url-status=live
}}</ref> [[Jill Craigie]] also suffered a crushed hand in this car crash.

In October 1976, Foot became blind in one eye following an attack of [[shingles]].<ref name="Guardian, Obit" >{{cite news
  |first=Mervyn  |last=Jones
  |author-link=Mervyn Jones (writer)
  |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/mar/03/michael-foot-obituary
  |title=Michael Foot obituary
  |newspaper=The Guardian  |location=London
  |date=3 March 2010
  |access-date=15 August 2010
  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315100254/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/mar/03/michael-foot-obituary|archive-date=15 March 2014|url-status=live
}}</ref>