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?