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00830100000
PRIMARY FACILITY
Vestibriüm University Hospital
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ATTENDING PHYSICIAN
Süurd
TYPE
pre
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n/a
DISPOSITION (STATUS)
In progress
ARTICLE (JOURNAL REF)
Professor Süurd Digresses
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THEATRE OF OPERATIONS: TALES FROM VESTIBRIÜM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
by Marc Weber
Professor Süurd Digresses
Plate 91a: Supervised laboratory activities at the Mösknvorr Research Facility (which has since been converted to a facility for women of dubious capacity).
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"Now, I'll grant you that she was a woman of dubious capacity, having been interned at the Mösknvorr Facility for a schism of the phrenia noidinal. I made that diagnosis myself back in '73, and her file is cataloged with a plethora of fanciful delusions consistent with this unfortunate condition. Makes for some engaging reading, I tell you... If the family wasn't clamoring for book rights, I would tell you about the morning she gave birth to a wretched creature, most likely of extraterrestrial origin. After dispatching a requisite sample to the government, I gave the progeny to an associate who raised it as her own. The tissue has since evolved into a moss-like organism occupying over three acres on a back lot in Vermont. It even communicates via hexadecimal radio pulsations. Now, that is a curiosity. Crazy, what people will come up with. But, you see, while the bulk of these reports are clear apparitions, we cannot be sure that all stem from the malady.

"We held her in safe keeping at the facility, but eventually our luck ran out and she gave birth to another creature. This one seemed to be human, more or less. But it turned out that the child was evil incarnate, brimming with satanic essence. When she realized this some years later, she utilized a kitchen knife to unceremoniously gut the boy, cutting open his thorax and ripping out the beast's heart. Now, the squeal of this possessed urchin made quite a ruckus -- something neighbors continue to remark about to this day. In fact, the whole incident made something of a stir, as these things tend to do in suburban neighborhoods. Hmmm...

Plate 553: Eisinbrüge (foreground) and Strühiafe (background) documenting tangible evidence of evil in tissue samples obtained via mail order.
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"Well, as you're no doubt aware, numerous studies have documented the medical effects of exposure to satanic influence, so I won't go into detail on that point. Of course, there's plenty of legal precedent on the topic as well; but when you've seated a jury, you've got to put on a show. And in this vein, the prosecuting attorney asked me if I could produce any 'tangible evidence of evil' from the boy's remains, which brings us to the projection you're looking at now. Plate 133: Tangible Evidence of Evil. Take a good look, because you're not likely to see this in medical school -- not since the Eisinbrüge-Strühiafe incident of 1961 (rest their souls). Now, this next slide is the same tissue, sectioned and treated with Broknvost dye. Here, one can readily ascertain the formation of several malevolent nodules, particularly in the anterior region. (For reference, I should point out that the anterior process is here, with the cytoplasmic rectillium delineated by this... Um, coliotial membrane, I suppose.) So, while I couldn't isolate any 'full-fledged' evil, the nefarious quality of this tissue should be obvious, even to a layman. Uh... These next slides just show more of the same; but take special note of the way evil spreads, especially along an axis.

"Now, for centuries, journals have been rife with scientific approaches to exorcism, but nothing has been demonstrated to be statistically more effective than flogging; which I think you'll agree is a generally disappointing procedure. Instead, physicians today are increasingly keen on radical cardioectomy as the safest approach. Remove the heart, and you remove the medium in which evil breeds. Technically not an exorcism, but it works. And so, thanks to my expert testimony, this unfortunate woman was acquitted; although she still suffers from a schism of the phrenia noidinal, as most women do."