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Writer of books about history, surgery, the weird and wonderful. Latest book THE DUBLIN RAILWAY MURDER out now in paperback, pub. Vintage.
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One day he discovered that a monkey had eaten the strings from his lute. History does not record whether the monkey had been playing the lute before doing so.

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So - what are we looking at here? This first angiogram shows the patient's right coronary artery, with an anomaly indicated by the white arrow. Blood is draining through multiple fistulous openings from one branch of the coronary straight into the left ventricle.

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And the final ghost in my selection is a bony hand saying NO TO TRICK OR TREATERS.

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Ghost no. 1. Stare at this image while counting to twenty. Then transfer your gaze to the ceiling, to a blank wall or a piece of paper. What do you see?
SPOOKY.

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A man coughs up a tobacco pipe - more than two years after his friend accidentally stabbed him in the eye with it - a jaw-dropping case from 1770: https://t.co/forkwtA4Dk

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A Philadelphia doctor's unusual case: a lion-tamer admitted to his hospital after a tangle with a big cat in 1872: https://t.co/8ADz5nGWkZ

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Today is a red-letter day for cardiac specialists - the anniversary of the first successful heart surgery, performed by Ludwig Rehn in 1896.

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There are cases in which patients were said to have died of fright at the prospect of a bladder-stone operation.

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