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The Strange Case Of The Walking Corpse
This book is about extremely strange and rare diseases and medical disorders.
Some of the diseases covered include:
Dr. Jules Cotard in the late 1800's descibed the "walking corpse" a psychiatric disease whee patients have delusions about loosing parts of their body or soul. Sometimes the patients believe that they have died. This is also called "Cotard's Syndrome", and it is a mental disease that has been found in schizophenics and manic depressives, and those with bipolar disorder.
Some mental patients have a distorted sense of time, space, and body image, and this is known as Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome.
Jumping Frenchmen of Maine is the disorder that causes people to be extremely startled by an unexpected noise or sight. It's more than being frightened by someone coming up behind you.
In this book, Butcher also writes about possible future advances in medicine, such as growing teeth in a petri dish from stem cells. She also covers limb regeneration, and the possibilities of artificial blood.
The Strange Case Of The Walking Corpse
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