1Jose: the man with no face Jose has one of the most extreme facial tumours ever seen in medical history. The 51-year-old, from Portugal, is in danger of being suffocated by it unless he undergoes drastic surgery. Unemployed, he is blind in one eye as a result of the giant weeping growth that has consumed …
1Cathie Jung: World’s Smallest Waist –15 inches Honestly, no Photoshop. Cathie Jung’s tiny waist measures just 15in (38cm), making her figure distinctly hourglass.The Queen of Corsets, as she has aptly named herself, has worn tight-fitting corsets for years to get there, and appears in the body parts section of the Guinness Book of World Records …
From Jocelyn Wildenstein, a US$4 million monster, to –who else?– Michael Jackson, meet these ten plastic surgery addicts, terrible examples of really bad plastic surgery gone wrong. Hang Mioku: the korean plastic surgery addict who injected cooking oil into her own face One of the most famous cases of awful plastic surgery gone wrong, Hang …
From Blue Skin to the Werewolf Syndrome, some of the most rare skin diseases and skin conditions ever seen. 1Argyria: Blue Skin, a real-life Smurf A condition caused by the ingestion of silver, the Argyria‘s most dramatic symptom is that the skin becomes blue or bluish-grey colored. On 2008, ABC reporters interviewedPaul Karason, 40 year-old …
1The Fertility Clinic that used the wrong sperm When Nancy Andrews, of Commack, N.Y., became pregnant after an in vitro fertilization procedure at a New York fertility clinic, she and her husband expected a new addition to their family. What they did not expect was a child whose skin was significantly darker than that of …
From the tiniest veins, arteries and nerves to serial cross-sections of the spinal cord, these incredibly detailed dissections show and label most every part of the human body. The collection is the product of a 17-year collaboration between David L. Bassett, a School of Medicine alumnus and faculty member known for his elegant dissections and …
1Papaphobia: fear of the Pope Regarded as one of the most benevolent and wonderful individuals in the world, millions flock to him, hoping for his blessing…except for those who suffer “Papaphobia”: an abnormal or persistent pathological fear of the pope or the papacy.Symptoms can include shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea, and …
Cocaine, morphine, and even heroin were seen as miracle cures when they were first discovered.Substances prohibited today were legally available in the past, so until the late 1800, manufacturers proudly proclaimed that their products contained such drugs. Today we present you ten of this incredible old ads. Cocaine toothache drops (c. 1885) were popular for …
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