What doesn’t happen in life ... Sometimes paradoxical things happen to us that contradict logic and cannot be explained. Amazing nearby. One has only to take a closer look.

Your attention is presented to the ten most incredible medical cases that have taken place. Hang on, it will be interesting. So let's go!

1. The highest body temperature

The highest body temperature in the history of medicine was recorded by the American Willie Jones (Georgia, Atlanta) in 1980. The thermometer stopped at exactly 46.5 ° C when the patient was admitted to the hospital. Willie Jones recovered and was discharged from the hospital 24 days later.

2. The lowest body temperature

The lowest human body temperature was documented in February 1994 in Regina (Canada). The "owner" of this record low temperature was a two-year-old girl named Carly Kozolofsky. By happy coincidence, the baby managed to survive. She spent in the terrible frost for more than six hours at the door of her house, which accidentally slammed shut. Now attention! Her body temperature at the time of fixation was only 14.2 ° C!

3. The largest number of foreign bodies in the stomach

2533 foreign bodies were found in the stomach of a forty-two-year-old woman who suffered from a psychological disorder - obsessive ingestion of objects. Among the “collection” were 947 pins! With such a load in the abdomen, the woman experienced only slight discomfort, which became the reason for going to the doctors.

4. The heaviest item in the stomach

The heaviest third-party item that was removed by doctors from the human stomach in the entire history of surgery is a huge hairball that weighed 2.35 kilograms. There is a disease in which people swallow hair.

5. The largest number of pills taken

Zimbabwean K. Kilner took 565,939 tablets in twenty-one years of his treatment. This is the largest number of pills that has ever been taken by man.

6. The largest number of injections

The largest number of injections was delivered to the Englishman Samuel Davidson. Their number in his entire life amounted to almost 79,000. They injected him with insulin.

7. The longest operation

The longest operation in history lasted almost 100 hours. It was an operation to remove a cyst on the ovary. After her, the patient's body weight was 140 kilograms. Before the operation, she weighed 280!

8. Most operations

Most of all operations of varying complexity suffered the American Charles Jensen. From 1954 to 1994, he underwent 970 operations. Surgical interventions were carried out in connection with the need to remove neoplasms.

9. The longest cardiac arrest

The longest heart failure occurred in the Norwegian Jan Revsdal. A fisherman by profession, he, performing his professional duties, fell overboard. It was in the Bergen area. In ice-cold water, his body temperature dropped sharply to 24 ° C, and his heart stopped beating. Cardiac arrest lasted four hours. After Ian was connected to an apparatus that supports cardiopulmonary bypass, he came to his senses and began to recover.

10. The biggest overload

The biggest overload had to endure David Perley. The famous driver during the competition in 1977 had a car accident. As a result of this, on the way just a little over 60 centimeters long, his speed, and accordingly the speed of his body, decreased from 173 kilometers per hour to a complete stop. Doctors counted three dislocations, twenty-nine fractures, six cardiac arrests on his way to the hospital.

These are such extraordinary cases from the life of ordinary people. No one is safe from this. Although it is better not to fall into the book of records in one section with people whose unique cases from the life we ​​have listed.

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