Welcome! This blog is a collection of my finds that I cureate as an enthusiast of unusual medicine. To start, I thought I would ease you in with a post about not especially unusual conditions that have been left unusually long (usually to lack of access to heathcare or science having not been advanced in the place or period that these images were taken. Let us examine the common hernia, for example. 

(image description: the stomach of a very young white child with a small lump where the navel should be)

Shown above is a common hernia in children, the umbilical hernia. This is caused by damage to the abdominal wall which causes the bowel to herniate. a simple surgery will fix this and provideing the patient has adequate access to aproppriate servicies it is of no great concern.

Now, let us take a look at an umbilical hernia that has gone without treatment for several years.

(image description : the side veiw of a torso of a white man with some tattoos. he has a large lump the size of a basketball over his navel)

Ouch!