7ft worms, hermaphrodite sailors and resurrection by tobacco revealed in archive

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7ft worms, hermaphrodite sailors and resurrection by tobacco revealed in archive
Worms seven feet in length, the first documented case of a hermaphrodite and the tale of a sailor who was saved from death by tobaccco smoke have emerged in a catalogue of bizarre Naval doctors' records disclosed by the National Archives.

By Andy Bloxham
Published: 6:50AM BST 30 Sep 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8032438/7ft-worms-hermaphrodite-sailors-and-resurrection-by-tobacco-revealed-in-archive.html

Another surgeon was asked to observe Samuel Tapper, an 18-year-old sailor in 1802, and noted: "Tapper's breasts so perfectly resemble those of a young woman of 18 or 19 that even the male genitals which are also perfect, do not fully remove the imporession that the spectateor is not lookin on a female."