Weird Health Wednesdays – Frog Legs, Amazing Surgery, Vampires

What Happens When a Frog Breaks Its Legs?
Frog casts, of course.

Girl Has 6 Organs Removed in Tumor Operation
Doctors had to remove Heather McNamara’s stomach, pancreas, spleen, liver, small intestines, and large intestines in order to cut out a life-threatening tumor. They chilled the child’s own organs, basically treating them as organ transplants, and were able to replace her liver and small and large intestines after the tumor removal. Although doctors had to create an artificial stomach and the lack of both a spleen and pancreas mean Heather is now prone to infection and diabetic, she’s doing just fine after such a very risky surgery.

First “Vampire” Archaeological Remains Found
This skull, found among medieval Italian plague victim remains, displays an old exorcism ritual. People in the Middle Ages believed stuffing bricks into vampires’ mouths stopped them from spreading the plague.