In the summer of 1518, dozens of people in Strasbourg danced for days and couldn’t stop. The archive records, the chronicles, the St Vitus pilgrimage, the disputed death toll and the theories, from mass hysteria to ergot.
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In 1982, in Georgia, Angela Cavallo lifted a Chevrolet Impala to save her son trapped underneath. The true story, the details often told wrong, and what science says about “hysterical strength”.
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In short Around 1500, in Switzerland, Jacob Nufer, a pig gelder, is said to have performed on his wife Elisabeth
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In short For years Dee Dee Blanchard made everyone believe her daughter Gypsy Rose was seriously ill, putting her through
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In short On 19 February 1994 Gloria Ramirez, 31, who had cervical cancer, died in the emergency room in Riverside,
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I’m sure you’ve happened to see a gif with this kid somewhere on the web. What you may not know
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In short In Brazil organ trafficking is a real and under-reported problem, fuelled by corruption and lack of oversight. The
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In short In 2015 Jewel Shuping, a 30-year-old from North Carolina, said in a Barcroft TV video that she had
Continua a LeggereThere is plenty of strange medical cases in human history: some of them have very well documented evidence, while some
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In short Since 2013 Marnie-Rae Harvey, an English girl, has been coughing up blood and then crying blood, with bleeding
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In short Skull trepanation may be the oldest known surgical procedure: the first drilled skulls date back 7,000 to 10,000
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In short Abby and Brittany Hensel, born on 7 March 1990 in Minnesota, are dicephalic conjoined twins: two heads on
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