STRANGE TALES
Medical science in America has been puzzled by the following cases, described at length in "Popular Science." 1. An Illinois woman suffered an attack of yawning that lasted more than a week. Unable to stop, she yawned eight to twelve times a minute, day and night. 2. A negro was attacked by vitiligo, a little-known disease, that destroys the pigment of the skin. When the disease had run its course he was completely white! 3. A man took on the appearance of an ape. Paget's disease, a gland malady, caused this grotesque change in his body structure. 4. In a theatre a man was lighting a cigarette, when there was a burst of flame. A disorder had made his breath inflammable, and it exploded. 5. A Los Angeles boy has red hair on one side of his head, blonde on the other. Also, one of his eyes is brown, the other is blue.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 16, 20 January 1936, Page 16
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155STRANGE TALES Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 16, 20 January 1936, Page 16
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