Sneezing from a full stomach, medical hazards of mustache wax, an otorhinolaryngologist, and the international diplomacy of using porcine parts to teach surgery— these all turn up in this week’s Improbable Research podcast.
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This week, Marc Abrahams —with dramatic readings by Melissa Franklin — tells about:
- Sneezing provoked by a full stomach. (“Autosomnal Dominant Sneezing Disorder Provoked by Fullness of the Stomach,” A.S. Teebi and Q.A. Al-Saleh, Journal of Medical Genetics, vol. 26 , 1989 , pp. 539-40.)
- Medical hazards of mustache wax. (“An Unusual Finding on Routine Dental Pan-Oral Tomography,” S. Lloyd, V.R. Talati, and J.P. Ward, British Dental Journal, vol. 176, no. 4, February 19, 1994, pp. 144-6.)
- Adventures — well, one adventure — of an otorhinolaryngologist. (“Perioral Dermatitis Secondary to the Use of a Corticosteroid Ointment as Mustache Wax,” E.K. Edwards Jr. and E.K. Edwards Sr., International Journal of Dermatology, vol. 26, no. 10, December 1987, p. 649.)
- The international diplomacy of using porcine parts to teach surgery. (“Islam, Teaching Dermatologic Surgery, and Porcine Parts,” Lawrence M. Field, Dermatologic Surgery, vol. 27, no. 6, June 2001, pp. 608-9.)
The mysterious John Schedler or the shadowy Bruce Petschek perhaps did the sound engineering this week.
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