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The Minerva section of the British Medical Journal was probably the only part of any medical journal I used to look at when I was a medical student. It has taken me sometime to find it, but the following chest radiograph of a West Indian man with severe burning chest pain must be seen to be believed.
Are those flames you can see?
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Can anyone explain this??Whats spontaneous combustion??
Hi Ravichandra,
I suggest checking out the Wikipedia article on ‘Spontaneous Human Combustion’ -- radio-opaque dreadlocks I’m sure you’ll agree is much more likely…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_human_combustion