Medical facts or the most unusual phenomena

It is known that for the entire period of medicine there were so many miraculous recoveries, medical oddities, unresolved secrets and strange questions that one could write a bunch of books and articles. We will give the most exciting and interesting ones.

1. Let's start with the lucky one who managed to survive after the biggest overload. We are talking about the driver of Perly David, he in 1977 was able to survive on the racing track accident, his body felt slowing speed from 173 km / h at a distance of 66 cm to zero. As a result, he formed 29 fractures and 3 dislocations, and cardiac arrest was 6 times!
2. Among those who fell most under the surgeon's knife is the American Charles Jensen. He managed to postpone 970 operations for 45 years of life. He was removed neoplasms.
3. Of course, operations are unpleasant, but injections can cause inconvenience, especially if there are more than 78,900 of them! Such an amount of insulin injections was given to Samuel Davidson from the UK.
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4. Of course, you can replace injections with tablets, but it is unlikely that someone will want to swallow more than half a million tablets that took inside K. Kilner for 21 years.
5. It is necessary to mention the Norwegian Jan Revsdal, he managed to survive a cardiac arrest, which is considered the longest. He was a fisherman and once fell overboard in the sea in December weather. His body temperature dropped to 24 degrees, and his heart stopped for 4 hours. But he still survived, after he was connected to the system of artificial circulation.
6. But this is not the longest period of life without a heart. In South Carolina teenager Jeanne Simmons managed to live without a heart 118 days. She suffered dilated cardiomyopathy, as a result her heart could not work effectively. The girl lived for four months on an artificial system without a heart, pumps pumped the blood.
7. A unique recovery was recorded after falling from the height of the 47th floor. In 2007, the brothers Edgar and Alcides worked on a skyscraper platform, washing his windows. Suddenly, a 5 meter structure flew down from the 47th floor. Edgar died, and Alcides miraculously survived. He broke his right arm, both legs, ribs and injured his spine. However, it is quickly restored after the fall. For several years, according to their estimates, he will fully restore his health.
8. The highest body temperature was recorded in Willie Johnson in 1980, when he was taken to the hospital. It was 46.6 ° C.Despite this, he was safely discharged 24 days later.
9. Gabby Gigras - an ordinary 9-year-old girl, not different from their peers. However, she had a very rare CIPA disease. As a result, she does not feel pain, heat and cold. A total of about 100 cases of this disease have been recorded.
10. A person can be a conductor of a current and thus not to feel side effects and not to have damages. This man was Jose Rafael Marquez, who can pass through a huge amount of electricity. He is also able to set fire to the paper with his fingers.

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