WeirdMedical™

Hypothesis:  If ones’ stomach lining can absorb alcohol leading to the symptoms of intoxication, then the dermal layers of ones’ feet should do the same — ol’ Danish myth.

Method: Place feet in washtub of alcohol for 3 hours.

Tools:

• Washtub

Tune for Foot Tapping

• Feet (preferably two)
• 80 Proof vodka…lots!
• Watch..second hand not necessary
• Patience
• Towel

Results: …read more at…“Washtub Play” or “Scientists dip feet, debunk Danish alcohol myth”

Happy Holidays from your WeirdMedical team at MedIntelliBase!

“But honey, the < fill in here > made me do it!”

A meta-analysis of healthcare insurance claims has shown that middle aged men (40′s or older) who take impotence drugs have triple the rate of sexually transmitted diseases compared to their drug-free brethren.

The scientific theory, however, is not that the drugs make them more promiscuous but that perhaps the predisposition of the male mindset leads them to seek the path to more fun through pharmaceuticals.

Read on…

Now this is a good use of our federal tax dollars…

In the northwestern reaches of Washington (D.C. that is) sits a museum that is a “must see” if you like the slightly off-taste, arcane, twisted and in some cases, down-right gross medical oddities. Visit the bricks and mortar “Roadside America of American medicine,” the National Museum of Health and Medicine, America’s oldest taxpayer-funded Cabinet of Curiosities near Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

A row of little skeletons.

At the National Museum of Health and Medicine you can see precariously displayed and disturbingly barely described:

• hanging display of a complete brain and spine, suspended in liquid in an eerily lit glass cylinder
• girl’s head preserved in arsenic
• well-preserved hairball from the stomach of a 12-year old girl who compulsively ate her own hair
• skull with a huge civil war bullet buried in its frontal lobe
• and the list goes on…

To visit…virtually go to the RoadsideAmerica.com Team Field Reporters or National Museum of Health and Medicine, or in real life visit:

6900 Georgia Avenue, Washington, DC

Hours:     M-F 10 am – 5:30 pm, Sa, Su, Hol call ahead

No kidding. This is for real – so when you go to the NMHM in D.C., tell them you want your tax dollars’ worth!