Medical Oddities and Biological Anomalies
 

I am oddly fascinated by these kind of news stories, so I thought I would dedicate a thread to it...


Just heard about this case today...

Dede, the Indonesian man with root-like warts growing all over his body. Also known as "Tree Man." He suffers from a genetic condition that cannot control warts, so they have taken over his body.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...rl/treeman.jpg

There's a telegraph.co.uk article including clips of an upcoming documentary here.

WOW. I can't even imagine...

He is now working with a doctor who should be able to reduce the size of the warts.

Heard any good Medical Stories recently?

I'm with you on this one. I am fascinated by medical curiosities.

I've been researching a biopic about Jojo the Dogfaced Boy for several years now.

check out the Mutter Museum in Philly! Mindblowing!!!

That's just fucked up lunch - cheers!

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resou...mpkin-puke.jpg

Tumor man.

Treebeard Lives!

I will post some super gross pictures of burn victims my friend gave me. I just have to get my computer unmessed up... :)

Haven't been to that museum... The Museum of Medical History in Washington DC was pretty spectacular, though... Went there around this time last year... And my boyfriend at the time nearly proposed to me in the deformed fetus room...

It was pretty amazing.

This was another case that caught my attention a few weeks ago...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...rl/lakshmi.jpg

Baby Lakshmi was born as a conjoined twin, which manifested as extra arms and legs. She was recently operated on, and the operation was a success. News Post India article here.

Ever heard of harlequin ichthyosis. When I saw this on youtube I thought it must be fake but I did some research and it isn't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I6xuZ86bw8

I had to scroll past that first picture really quick... It reminded me of a guy I walked past at a bus stop around a month ago, he wore glasses with a thickish black rim and had a short flat top styl haircut, and his face was 90% covered in warts... F@#$ing freaked me out!

That's pretty fucked up... The fact that there is the remote chance that a baby would be born into this life knowing nothing but agonizing pain... Leaves absolutely NO doubt in my mind that there is no God (or at least a God having all three properties: omnipotents, omni benevolence and omniscience)

What was the research that you did? What's the name of the anomaly?

I don't believe in a God, but if there is a God has he not left us to our own devices... what I am saying is, abnormalitys from birth are gentic malfunctions which could be caused from many different threads we have ourselfs put into the human stream of life.

Harlequin ichthyosis is the condition and although most of the babies die, some live to teenage years and even adulthood. Some research was in a medical dictionary we have, the rest on wikipedia.

Definitely worthy of debate... It would be more what you would consider related to God (whether or not biology is) and what is separated...

But that aside (not shrugging you off - it's a great discussion that would deserve a thread in and of itself, or discussions offline), I honestly feel as though we are prisons of our own biology... That mortal coil... Looking at genetic anomalies create so much pathos and interest in me because these are examples of humans dealing with the control of their own genetics...

Yes, you DID mention the name of the condition... Sorry I missed it (was so distracted by the video)... I just did some research myself on Wikipedia, and that's just... horrific.

I think it has a lot to do with diet and generl way of life, obviously in malnourished third world countrys these type of occurences are far more common.

That alien baby was just straight up creepy.

These kind of things just make me not wanna wonder about anything.

Come on John, you got to wonder... it's to much fun! ;)

I really wish not to. I have too much shit going on in my fucked up life to worry about alien babies, octopus babies, and tree limbed men.

Well you can look at it all this way.... For you, it could be worse... See my point.:)

edit: no time ..................

You just like making us wait, don't you?

Yeah well that's the reason I wonder why people kill themselves. I have always thought that it could always be worse. But I'd rather not look into what worse really is, ya know?

Take a look at these. you can thank america for these.
results of depleted uranium dumps in other countries.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscart...s/cgon222l.jpg

Yeah, Gulf War Syndrome... Pretty messed up.

:p

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...e/a3f57eea.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...e/a9f6f758.jpg

my friend sent me these, pretty sure they are "insider" pics 0o0o0o

abnormal pressure wounds, they don't totally fit with the thread but they're gross and I've been dying to post them. ;)

I doubt photobucket will let me show this so I'll post a link. Anyone who's ever been on rotten.com will know what they're like.

http://poetry.rotten.com/weightlifter/

and this one will please all of you who hate suicide bombers.

http://poetry.rotten.com/failed-mission/

Lol the birth of goatse.

you're gonna get in trouble, you're gonna get in trouble. :D

so many better death pics than that also, like that picture is like a 6.5/10

I think the reason it made me a bit kind of...uneasy looking at it is I know it's all real and not just something the director of a movie and his daughter made from branston pickle and food colouring. I'm not gonna post a link to it but has anyone ever seen two girls one cup. Really really really messed up. One of my friends showed it to me. As a result I don't speak to him much so even though your curiosity will make you look, I'm advising you, even if one of your friends says it's good, DO NOT GO ON IT!!!! You have been warned.

Man. How do you manage a pressure wound like that?


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Weightlifter - ... Is that another type of pressure wound? :p knuck knuck knuck

No more pictures of yourself, please...

please elaborate.
two girls one cup.
wtf is that?

http://www.2girls1cup.co m

yeah yeah, i googled it. there were a few websites with vidoes of just peoples reactions to it. those were pretty funny. as for the video itself, i watched the first ten seconds then closed the window. ive seen worse though. i posted it here once, got deleted imediatly lol.

The guy with the warts wasn't so bad. That pressure wound was kinda gross though.

10 pound hair ball. Pretty gross.

Your link doesn't work...

cause there's a space in the url. You don't want to see it anyway.... I think

I don't really think I need too....

Yeah, I believe that it's actually on display at the American Museum of Medical History in DC... Pretty disgusting.

Resurrecting this thread because I found this:

Surgeon Believes New Technique Will Allow for Bloodless Removal of 12-Pound Tumor From Face of Jehovah's Witness

The link to the FoxNews story can be found here, including pictures that I found a bit too disturbing to actually host and post on the thread.

Essentially, this 37-year-old man sprouted this tumor at age 14 and has flat out REFUSED to receive blood transfusions to mend it on the basis of his religious beliefs.

The result:
Pictures here.

I honestly canNOT understand people who reject medical treatments, regardless of their beliefs.

Oof.