As 'Cello Scrotum' Is Exposed As a Hoax, Can You Spot the Other Bogus Illnesses? [Edition 3]
Daily Mail › February 10, 2009
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SHOCK horror! That infamous musical malady 'Cello Scrotum' has this week been revealed as nothing but a hoax, invented 34 years ago in a joke letter by Baroness Murphy -- now one of Britain's most eminent medical experts. But it turns out there are plenty more ridiculous-sounding illnesses. Here, JANE FRYER provides a selection of some of the more outlandish -- with a few more fakes thrown in for fun. Can you tell which are the real afflictions?
1. ALIEN HAND SYNDROMESee the full content of this document
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As 'Cello Scrotum' Is Exposed As a Hoax, Can You Spot the Other Bogus Illnesses? [Edition 3]
OCCURS when sufferers lose control of a limb, most likely due to a faulty brain wiring. The 'alien' hand can prove most unhelpful -- stubbing out a cigarette the other hand has just lit, or unzipping a fly the other has just zipped.
Symptoms can be reduced by keeping the alien hand busy, by perhaps giving it a puzzle to unravel or object to hold. If all else fails, pop a tea cosy over it and hope it calms down.2. ALICE IN WONDERLAND SY...See the full content of this document
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