Today, it is not only a feast for the scientific community, but also attracts a large number of fans. Of course, there are also many wonderful studies in the medical field.
In a series of Ig Nobel Prizes, the medicine prize seems to be the most important: in the past 20 years, it has not only been held every year, but also in some years, the public health prize will be awarded separately from medicine.
Some of these awards can really make people laugh, but they are really meaningful. Today, Sister Si will take you back to those wonderful doctors and their wonderful research.
Self-cognition of foot odor 1992, several researchers at the research center of yokohama iv hall, Japan, won the medical prize for their groundbreaking research report "clarification of the causes of foot odor and the mixture formed"
They think that foot odor is caused by certain compounds.
They come to the conclusion that those who think their feet stink, their feet stink; And those who think their feet don't stink, their feet don't stink.
The study was published in the British Journal of Dermatology.
This study and a lot of other interesting studies have been compiled into a book.
What should I do with the zipper clip Tintin? Yes, you are right. This is the prize of 1993 medical prize.
Kind and careful male doctors James F. Nolan, Thomas J. Stillwell and John P. Sanders Jr. found that Tintin's zipper injury was an extremely "serious" problem, so they painstakingly wrote The Treatment of Tintin's Acute Zipper Injury.
The research results were published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine 65438-0990.
There is another way of thinking ... Image source: Paul Jaulmes's electroshock therapy for rattlesnake bites: failure science, success will lead to failure, and medicine seems to be the same.
1994 Richard of Loki Mountain Poisoning Treatment Center won the prize of obscurantism medicine? Dr. Richard C. Dart's medical report "Failure of Electroshock Therapy for Patients Bitten by Rattlesnake Venom" won the prize.
And the other half of that year went to patient a.
Patient A is a former member of the United States Marine Corps. After being bitten by his pet rattlesnake, he bravely decided to accept electroshock therapy.
At his own insistence, the wire connecting the spark plug of the car was clamped on his lips, and the car engine continued to rotate at a speed of 3000 revolutions per minute for 5 minutes.
It can be seen that the research results of doctors are absolutely inseparable from the crazy support of patients.
Inflatable dolls spread sexually transmitted diseases. Well, this is a more wonderful study. Allen Creste from Greenland and Harold Moi from Norway wrote an article entitled "Transmission of Gonorrhea through Inflatable Dolls" through their research at Harvard University in the United States, and published it in Urogenital Medicine, and obtained 1996.
Giving birth also helps. 1999 the public health prize was awarded to George and Charlotte Bronsky in new york, USA, because they invented a centrifugal force delivery accelerator.
This device can help women give birth, pregnant women are fixed on a round table, and the table runs at high speed.
But unfortunately, when this "great invention" was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize, the couple had already passed away.
Husband George is an active engineer. One day, he saw a pregnant female elephant spinning in the Bronx Zoo, apparently preparing for giving birth to a baby elephant. Therefore, inspired by this, the engineer and his wife developed a device for "accelerating labor" and applied for a patent (U.S. PatentNo.: 32 16423).
Imagine that if this "centrifugal force delivery accelerator" is improved and perfected, once it is used in clinic, many delivery accelerators in the delivery room are equipped with women, and they rotate at the same time, and the baby is born in rotation. How spectacular and wonderful it will be.
A few months after the award was announced, the organizing committee of Ig Nobel Prize received several letters from women who were about to give birth.
They all said that this equipment is great, and some people expressed their willingness to try it.
The unimaginable centrifugal force transports the accelerator.
Image source: improbable.com committed suicide? Listen to country music. The winners in 2004 were sociologists Jim Gandrex and Steven Stark of the University of Alabama. Presumably, these two must have a grudge against country music, because their "research achievement" is the influence of country music on suicide.
After doing a lot of research, they came to a conclusion that people who love country music are more likely to commit suicide than others.
Ganderax Shi said: According to various surveys, the city with the highest suicide rate in the United States is Nashville, Tennessee, because it is rich in country music.
Are you going to give up country music when you see this? What about burping? In 2006, the Prize for Ignorant Medicine was awarded to Dr. Francis M. Fishmeier of Jacksonville University Hospital in Tennessee and Dr. Majed Oder of Haifa Zion Medical Center in Israel, because they invented an incredible "massage rectum to stop burping".
Dr. Fismir and Dr. Ou Dai introduced the operation steps of stopping hiccups: "Finger goes deep into the patient's anus, massages his rectum, and makes a slow circular motion.
The frequency of patients' hiccups will start to slow down immediately and stop completely within 30 seconds.
"Dr. Fismir is seriously talking about his rectal massage, but why didn't he wear gloves this time? Image source: improbable.com bra for mask, fast and healthy. A patent invented by Elena N. bodnar, Sandra Marie Jane and Raphael C. Li Yin from Illinois won the 2009 Public Health Award. The U.S. Patent No.7255627 can quickly transform the bra into two pairs of gas masks.
Elena bodnar attended the award ceremony, and people even wondered whether she would put on her emergency bra in case of emergency.
Anyway, many people saw this "magic" man can wear a "bra" at the award ceremony.
The background of this research comes from the influence of the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power plant at the beginning of bodnar's career.
They think that if people can make good use of this bra that can be turned into a mask in the first few hours of that disaster, many people will be protected from iodine-13 1 and the radiation sickness caused by it.
Ok, I wonder if this bra can prevent PM2.5? And ... Do boys wear bras?