The most unusual medical fact

Consider some facts from the world of medicine that affect the human imagination:

1. In 1980, an American patient from the city of Atlanta, Georgia, recorded the highest body temperature in medical practice. Willie Jones( that's the name of this man) went to the hospital with a temperature that was 46.5C.It is interesting that the patient recovered, and was discharged home in three weeks.
2. But, as for the lowest, officially recorded body temperature of a person, it was noted in the Canadian girl Carly Kozolofsky. This happened in Regina( Saskatchewan province) on February 23, 1994.The child was randomly in the cold( -22C) and it lasted at least 6 hours. Doctors stated that the body temperature of the poor woman dropped to 14.2C.
3. The woman's stomach is 42 years old( she had a strange deviation in that she swallowed objects) contained 2533 foreign objects. Only the English pins counted 947. The patient herself felt, oddly enough, normal. Sometimes she only complained that she had a little stomachache.
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4. The heaviest thing that surgeons removed from the stomach, a lump of hair. Its weight was 2 kg 350 grams. The owner of such a curious achievement had an unusual disease, in which the patient eats hair.
5. K. Kilner, from the distant African country of Zimbabwe, is considered the record holder for the number of tablets he has taken. For 21 years, this amateur pills consumed 565,939 pieces.   
6. But Samuel Deivdson from England is a man who was given a record number of injections. The patient suffered from diabetes mellitus and received 78,900 insulin injections during his life.
7. The greatest number of operations was managed to transfer the American to Charles Jensen. For forty years( 1954 - 1994), this citizen of the United States 970 times removed neoplasms.
8. The longest in the history of medicine operation lasted almost 96 hours. The patient was removed the ovarian cyst. It is interesting that after the operation, the patient lost weight, at a weight of 240 kg., Immediately at 140 kg.
9. The Norwegian Jan Revsdal was able to survive the longest cardiac arrest. He was a fisherman and fell into the sea in the winter. His heart did not beat for 4 hours. The patient was able to revive after the fisherman was connected to the system of artificial circulation. His own temperature was 24 ° C.
10. Phenomenal overload could survive racing driver David Perly. During the accident, the speed of his car fell sharply( from 173 km / h to 0).The driver got 3 dislocations, 29 fractures and survived 6 heart stops.