So I have to write this paper on diseases....

Mar 07, 2006 14:38

"Aretaeos described to the members of the medical fraternity in Athens the case of a woman of twenty-two, who bore two children after a seven months' pregnancy. One was very rudimentary and only 21 inches long, and the other had an enormous head resembling a case of hydrocephalus. On opening the head of the second fetus, another, three inches long ( Read more... )

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cloudy March 7 2006, 20:04:02 UTC
But they're not a disease, so they can't be in my paper.

The wit! It amuses!

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pokketmowse March 7 2006, 23:37:54 UTC
I read something about that not too long ago. I think it was in India or somewhere thereabouts, where a 12 year old boy complained of a horrible growth on his side that was pushing his lower ribs up. Doctors cut it open and found the skull of what would have been his brother, with perfectly formed teeth and hair.

You look down at your side one day. HELLO BROTHER.

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