10 incredible medical cases that are hard to believe

In 2016, a guy who was only 17 years old died in Mexico City after his girlfriend gave him a hickey on his neck. Doctors said the kiss caused a blood clot that eventually traveled to his brain and caused him to have a stroke.

In 1809, 45-year-old Jane Todd Crawford was misdiagnosed by two doctors who assured her that she was pregnant with twins.
A third doctor, Dr. Ephraim McDowell, gave her a very different diagnosis: he suggested that Crawford had a large ovarian tumor and decided to remove it with an experimental operation that had not been performed before. The doctor removed a tumor weighing 10 kg using the world’s first oophorectomy. Fortunately, the woman managed to recover, and she lived to be 78 years old.

A 19-year-old boy from Virginia decided to drink a liter of soy sauce on a bet. After this “feat”, the boy began to have convulsions, and foam came out of his mouth. He was rushed to the emergency room of a local hospital, where the decision was made to put him into an induced coma. When doctors checked his blood sodium levels, it was the highest level they had ever seen in an adult. The young man survived the poisoning without any lasting neurological problems.

Gloria Ramirez was taken to the hospital on February 19, 1994 with an oily sheen on her body and garlic breath. When the doctors took the blood, they noticed a strange smell. The medical staff present felt unwell, and it was decided to evacuate the hospital building. Of the 23 people who fell ill, five had to be hospitalized. Gloria’s official cause of death was determined to be “kidney failure.” But that didn’t explain her strange symptoms and the sudden illness of the hospital staff. In the history of medicine, she remained as a “toxic lady”.

In 2013, a 66-year-old man from China went to the doctors with terrible abdominal pain.
After a thorough examination, they discovered that the 1.5 meter tall man with a beard and penis was actually a woman, at least genetically. And the pain he felt was because of a large benign ovarian cyst.

In 1984, a woman in England claimed to hear voices telling her she had a brain tumor.
The woman was being treated for a hallucinatory psychosis, but she still continued to hear voices that insisted she needed a brain scan. In fact, the voices even reported exactly where the tumor was. After examination, the doctors found a tumor exactly where the voices claimed.

In 2003, Holly Marie Adams had a sexual relationship with Raymon and Richard Miller, identical twins, on the same day but at different times.
It turned out that Holly had become pregnant and indicated that Raymond was the father, but he denied this. A paternity test showed that the probability that both brothers will become fathers exceeds 99.9%. According to expert Dr. Bob Giles, there is no test to explain the difference between two identical twins. In the end, the court ruled that Raymond would pay the alimony.

In 1917, when Adam Rainer was 18 years old, his height was 1 meter 38 centimeters.
But when he was 32 years old, he was diagnosed with a tumor in the pituitary gland. He began to grow rapidly, and as a result, his height was 2 meters 18 centimeters. Doctors tried to remove the tumor, but to no avail. When he died in 1950 at the age of 51, he was 2.34 meters tall.

In 1754 Ewan MacDonald was sentenced to death in Newcastle.
After he was hanged, doctors were ordered to perform an autopsy. To everyone’s surprise, just as the surgeon was about to make an incision, Yuen sat up and immediately begged for mercy. But despite this, the sentence was carried out again.

The man was taken to the emergency room for being “dead drunk”. But he didn’t actually drink a drop of alcohol. Doctors have discovered that the 61-year-old man is somehow “brewing beer” in his intestines. He had yeast in his system, so when he ate foods rich in starch, the yeast fermented the sugar into ethanol. This turned it into a “human brewery”.