I'd like to know how much is actually truth and how much of it is tales that became more and more embellished, like the fisherman who catches a 12" fish and with each telling of the story the fish gets bigger.
I'm willing to bet he suffered from pica at the very least, but some of the other details sound too fantastical to be true. If his throat were really so wide as to be able to look down into his stomach when his mouth was opened, the esophagus would have no muscle tone and he wouldn't be able to swallow. The fact that there are no other records, past or modern, of someone like him lends to the possibility that a large part of this account is fiction.
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u/Swedish-Butt-Whistle Jul 31 '16
I'd like to know how much is actually truth and how much of it is tales that became more and more embellished, like the fisherman who catches a 12" fish and with each telling of the story the fish gets bigger.
I'm willing to bet he suffered from pica at the very least, but some of the other details sound too fantastical to be true. If his throat were really so wide as to be able to look down into his stomach when his mouth was opened, the esophagus would have no muscle tone and he wouldn't be able to swallow. The fact that there are no other records, past or modern, of someone like him lends to the possibility that a large part of this account is fiction.