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  • Mycatiskai@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzToast
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    16 days ago

    The burnt toast is likely a mistaken reference to a Canadian Heritage Minute about an epileptic woman who smelled burnt toast when she had seizures. A pioneering neurosurgeon kept his patients awake while probing their exposed brain to find and burn out malfunctioning nerves. It is actually epilepsy not a stroke that the burnt toast thing is associated with, not that everyone with epilepsy smells burnt toast, that was just the famous one that most Canadians of a certain age will know.

    Here it is for anyone curious. https://youtu.be/pUOG2g4hj8s

    Edit: tracking bit removed from link.





  • These were probably originally drawn from organs pulled out of cadavers and sketched or drawn while laid out on a table.

    When we think of organs we think of them all separate like we see in books instead of the truth that they are all jammed together with no open space to see.