The most amazing medical facts

The following material is a list of the "most-most" facts from the medical field that have occurred in the world.

1. According to the German book "Super Women", Barbara Stratzman herself was the mother of many children, she lived in Germany in the second half of the 15th century. This fact is confirmed by documents in which it is stated that Barbara gave birth to 53 children. The number of deliveries does not reach this figure, since Frau Stratzman gave birth to 18 times one infant, five times gave the wife twins, four times triplets, one birth resulted in the birth of six children and one more time Barbara gave life to 7 children at once. However, the absolute record holder for the number of children is a female peasant woman who lived in Russia in the XVIII century. She entered the history of records, like a mother who gave birth to 69 children.
2. In the east of New Guinea there is a mountain settlement of the tribe of For. The inhabitants of this tribe are subject to the most rare disease called Kuru. When the Kura is infected, 100% of death occurs. The emergence of this disease is due to the specific custom of the tribe - the eating of the human brain.
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3. In the United States, in Roanoac, Virginia, on July 5, 1983, the longest period between the death of a pregnant woman and the birth of her child was recorded. The woman in childbirth was on artificial maintenance of a life in a condition of clinical death. The interval of time through which the daughter of the patient was born was 84 days.
4. Another amazing fact occurred in Burma in 1961.A resident of the city of Rangoon in 54 years made a caesarean section and took out an ossified baby weighing 1.3 kilograms, which was in the womb of 25 years. The child was not born in 1936, when the labor stopped fighting. This fact was recorded as the longest pregnancy.
5. The fact of the highest body temperature occurred at the Grady Memorial Hospital, which was in Atlanta. July 10, 1980, a 52-year-old patient named Willy Jones entered the hospital. During a heart attack, his body temperature was 46.5 degrees, while in a day his condition was normal and he was discharged.
6. The lowest body temperature was recorded 3 times:
   • February 1, 1951, a resident of Chicago named Dorothy Stevens, who was found in the city park.
   • January 21, 1956 from Vicki Davis in Iowa. The girl was 2 years and 1 month old when she was found in an unheated house.
   • January 19, 1985 in Wisconsin in the snow was found 2-year-old Michael Trockl.
   • In all cases, the body temperature of these people was 16 degrees.
7. In 1990 in the US, a record was set for the human body to tolerate the highest air temperature. The body of the naked volunteer withstood a temperature of + 204.4 ° C, and in clothes this figure was + 260 ° C.For comparison, ordinary meat is toasted at a temperature of 168.8 ° C.
8. In Romania, surgeons from one of the clinics removed 831 stone from the gallbladder. This medical record was established in 2002.