A game of snakes & adders. She was billed as the Strangest Woman in the World for her immunity to snake venom and other poisons and her inability to feel pain.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 17, 2014
in Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Strange Bodies , Strange Lives , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged congenital insensitivity to pain , cutting , Eva Ferguson , Evatima Tardo , Evatina Tardo , handling snakes , hypnosis , Miss Tardo's Poisonous Profession , self-harm , sense of touch , snake venom , snakes , trance
A collection of subtle tales of indirect poisonings: from a cow’s paunch to dried peaches–some unlikely cases of toxicity.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 14, 2014
in Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Scientific Oddities , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Fortean , Frank Buckland , hydrophobia , indirect poisoning , poisons , rabies , sepsis , snake venom , strange deaths , Victorian poison