Medical experts are eager to see whether 2021 Ig Nobel Prize winner Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, will cure his intractable hiccups with the digital-rectal-message treatment devised by 2006 Ig Nobel Prize winner Dr. Francis Fesmire. Bolsonaro’s ailment is reported in many news outlets. The Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant says, today: “Brazilian President Bolsonaro […]
Tag: rectal
Should packaged meat labels include pre-slaughter rectal-temperature info?
A new study inspired the until-now unasked question: Should packaged meat labels include pre-slaughter rectal-temperature info? The study does not itself overtly ask that question. The study is: “Pre-slaughter rectal temperature as an indicator of pork meat quality,” L. Vermeulen, V. Van de Perre, L. Permentier, S. De Bie, and R. Geers, Meat Science, vol. 105, […]
Imperial salute to Dr. Fesmire’s digital hiccup cure
At the Imperial College show, launching the 2014 Ig Nobel Tour of the UK, the 800 audience members each raised a finger in salute to Ig Nobel Medicine Prize winner Dr. Francis Fesmire, who died recently. Dr. Fesmire was awarded that Ig Nobel Prize in 2006, for his medical report ““Termination of Intractable Hiccups with […]
Sad News: Dr. Fesmire, of digital-rectal-massage-to-cure-hiccups fame, is gone
We note with sadness the news that Ig Nobel Prize winner Dr. Francis Fesmire died. Dr. Fesmire found joy and fame by putting his finger on — nay, in — the pulse of his times. He was awarded the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in medicine for his medical case report “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital […]
Human exhaust-pipe found-object registry (2013, in one country)
Thank you to the disturbingly many people who alerted us to this article in Deadspin: What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums This Year? As in past years, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has created a searchable database of emergency room visits around the country. And as in past years, we have trolled the data […]
The vicar’s fall from grace (onto a potato)
The British edition of The Metro reports (in an article derived from reporting by The Sun: Vicar hospitalised with potato up his bum A vicar claims a potato got stuck up his bottom after he fell on to the vegetable while hanging curtains in the nude. The clergyman, in his 50s, told medical staff at […]
Anal probe: parsnips, pigs’ tails & lots more
In 1995, the Ig Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to two surgeons who painstakingly assembled a study called Rectal Foreign Bodies: Case Reports and a Comprehensive Review of the World’s Literature. Those case reports involve, among other items: seven light bulbs; a knife sharpener; two flashlights; a wire spring; a snuff box; an oil […]