Sunday, 22 May 2011

Thursday, 14 October 2010


Exhibit B: Pseudocyesis dioscorea. After a diet consisting solely of starchy tubers during pregnancy, the 23-year old patient gave birth to a yam. Labouring for 38 hours the dioscorean neonate was born on the 25 of september. Recorded weight 4780g. Father unknown.

Exhibit G: Third eye, also know as Polyocularism or Oculus Erraticae. 65-year old man with a supernumerary photoreceptive eye positioned in the palm of his right hand. The visual acuity of the third eye measured 20/20 on the Snellen Chart test and the ocular motility proved unimpaired by the palmar muscles. The man was considered to have clarivoyant abilities and regarded as a gyananakashu or "enlighted" by the local hindu community.