A 48-year-old truck driver was the victim of a bizarre accident in New Zealand. It must have been horrific, but it reads like a classic cartoon script. Steven McCormack was standing on his truck's foot plate Saturday wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/25/man-blew-up-like-a-balloon/Some of these cases are more bizarre than others.... ...an be pretty good at fooling family, friends, and medical practitioners. But the story of Mary Toft was tot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/02/the-6-most-bizarre-medical-hoaxes-people-actually-believed/Strange things happen to your body when you are pr... ...new mothers tend to worry, experienced women and medical professionals tend to gloss over the things you s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/14/10-weird-pregnancy-facts-no-one-tells-you-about/Dr. Chevalier Jackson was a laryngologist who spent a good deal of his career retrieving objects that his patients swallowed or inhaled. And he kept them all. He retired with a collection of over 2,000 bizarre items that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/13/down-the-hatch-and-straight-into-medical-history/Ronald Lee Herrick was 79 years old when he died Monday in a Maine hospital from complications of heart surgery. He did not die from kidney failure, even though he only had one, and his identical twin brother suffered fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/02/worlds-first-organ-donor-dies-56-years-later/Ming Li was on her way to school when a tractor ran over her and severed her left hand. Doctors in China thought the hand could be saved, but the arm was too damaged for reattachment. So they grafted the hand to Ming's l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/17/severed-hand-reattached-three-months-later/It's a classic but tragic mistake. Irmgard Holm of Phoenix, Arizona has several eye drop medications because of cataract surgery, but what she grabbed was a bottle of superglue. "The bottles are identical and I am not y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/05/woman-mistakes-superglue-for-eyedrops/We've been trying to preserve, repair, or remove our teeth for thousands of years. From the manual bow drill to modern veneers, this post shows how far we have come in the quest for good, or at least functional, teeth....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/a-pictorial-history-of-dentistry/Newsweek presents a pictorial history of birth control methods. We've come a long way since the Greek philosopher Aristotle recommended olive oil as a spermicide! http://www.newsweek.com/id/220089 -Thanks, Steadyburn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/29/the-history-of-birth-control/Think your health care plan is bad? Consider yourself lucky that you don't live back in the middle ages when "advanced" surgeries were done using these 20 seriously scary surgical tools. Yikes. This one to t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/02/terrifying-surgical-tools-of-old/
