~Through the world of Sawbones~

Imagine how it would be like, when you have the feeling that you are trapped inside a room that’s far too small. As if you are a giant. Maybe funny when experimenting with some kind of hallucinating drugs. But pretty scary when it constantly seems like the world is just not big enough for you. The condition in which people perceive objects as much smaller than they actually are is called micropsia, or the ‘Alice in Wonderland Syndrome’ or the 'Lilliput sight'. The syndrome was first described in 1955 by the English psychiatrist John Todd (1914-1987). Todd named it, of course, for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by  Lewis Carroll . Perhaps not coincidentally, Lewis Carroll suffered from severe migraine. Also known as a Lilliputian hallucination. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome  ( AiWS ), also known as  Todd's syndrome  or  dysmetropsia , is a disorienting neuropsychological condition that affects  perception . People may experience distortions in vis...

Doctors find giant hairball in 12-year-old girl's stomach. Doctors have found a 250 gram hairball inside a 12-year-old girl’s stomach after she complained of pains. Schoolgirl Zhu Xiaoxin has since been diagnose with the rare condition called Rapunzel syndrome which is named after the 19th-century fairytale character created by the Brothers Grimm. Sufferers compulsively eat their own hair, which ends up mostly in their stomach while a ‘tail’ obstructs their small intestine. The schoolgirls’ parents told doctors at Lishui Central Hospital in eastern China that she had complained of stomach pains and had not had a bowel movement in four days. “CT scans showed a foreign mass obstructing her bowels,” the hospital’s head of paediatrics Doctor Zhang Heng said. “The obstruction was very obvious because her stomach contents could only be seen above and not below the object.” However, neither the girl nor her parents were able to ...