The Woman Who Vomited Frogs

Have you ever got a strange idea in your head & googled it? Or was bored & thought you would think of something strange & google it? Well, once in awhile, I do this.

what do you mean I'm the only one!? What ever! :D

I thought I'd google something silly today, so I tried thinking of something. Nope! I did not google Panda Porn (This is a joke that the only person that would get it, is probably not reading this, OH WELL!) (If I knew how to do links, I would)

I googled Frogs lick peanutbutter flies. They suggested that I try changing the word - lick to like. So I did. I found a piece entitled "The Woman Who Vomited Frogs." Well... I had to click it. :D Here is the address, I hope it works http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/Pickover/vomit.html

Here is a peek at it...


In 1642, Mrs. Catharina Geisslerin was widely known as "the toad-vomiting woman of Germany." She told people that she had swallowed tadpoles in swamp water, and that frogs were thriving in her intestinal tract. Whenever she drank milk, the frogs would hop about madly. Despite initial skepticism, she convinced physicians that amphibians were in her digestive system -- especially after she vomited fully-grown frogs (sometimes living) for two years in front of famous professors and medical consultants!


Here's more...

Bartholin started his research by cutting up one of Catharina's frog children. He was shocked to find dozens of black flies inside the stomach. How could this be if the frog had grown to maturity within the woman's belly?

Now this shows how whacked up the medical feild was back in the 1600's & if I read it right (Which me is stoopiT) the guy still did not believe it was impossible.

Then it says...

When Catharina died in 1662, the medical community was excited about dissecting her body to search for amphibians within her stomach or intestines. To their dismay, the physicians found no creatures. Catharina did not die by amphibian overcrowding but by liver inflammation.

The scientists studying Catharina did not realize that the stomach's digestive juices would quickly destroy amphibians. (The warm temperature also contributes to their demise.)

Now when they are done talking about this they go into things people swallowed & throw back up. They also say that a lot of these people had OCD. Now that puts a whole new spin on OCD,... for me at least!

The most extreme case of compulsive swallowing is that of a 42-year-old woman who, in 1927, complained of a "slight abdominal pain." Physicians removed 2,533 objects from her stomach including 947 bent pins. In 1985, physicians removed 212 objects from a man whose stomach contents included: 53 toothbrushes, 2 razors, 2 telescopic aerials, and 150 handles of disposable razors.

On the flip side of the coin are those individuals who insert objects into their rectums. Modern medical journals list an astonishing array of objects: a bottle of Mrs. Butterworth's syrup, an ax handle, a 9-inch zucchini, a plastic spatula, a Coke bottle, an 11-inch carrot, an antenna rod, a 150-watt light bulb, 72 jeweler's saws, an apple, a frozen pig's tail, an 18-inch umbrella handle, two Vaseline jars, a teacup, an oilcan, a 6x5-inch tool box, a two-pound stone, a baby powder can, a peanut butter jar, a ball-point pen, baseballs, a sand-filled bicycle inner tube, sewing needles, a flashlight, a tobacco pouch, a turnip, a pair of eyeglasses, a hard- boiled egg, a carborundum grindstone, a suitcase key, tumblers and glasses, and a polyethylene waste trap from the U-bend of a sink. In 1955, one depressed man inserted a six-inch paper tube into his rectum, dropped in a lighted firecracker, and blew a hole in his anterior rectal wall.

Now I don't mean to be insensitive but that last guy sounds like a Redneck dare gone bad!

I hope I eb-u-cated you today!:D