This Afternoon I and 30 other People saw a Headless Woman who was being kept alive with a range of Medical and other Surgical Operations and Procedures.This all took place at the 'Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine' in Central London and was part of a whole afternoon where we looked at the History of such Phenomena in the context of how such 'Medical Curiosities' and other 'Freak Conditions' are viewed both today and in the past.'Sword Swallowing' was another 'Medical Trick' that people in the past paid their 6d's to go and see although the Wellcome Institute had paid for an American 'Master of the Art' to fly from America to demonstrate how it was done.There was no 'trick' by the way the man did in fact swallow the sword.I was also present in 1965 when the Film of 'Freaks' by the American Film Director Todd Browning was shown in England for the first time since it had been made and banned in the 1930's.As Medicine is in fact a series of quite remarkable accidents and coincidences it's possible that Procedures that at one time were thought healthy are now considered as harmful.In Scouts Boys were always encouraged to exercise,not to Smoke although 'Skip' and the ASM often did, to eat a healthy diet although 'Camp Tea' could be fairly lethal and to wear vests,shorts and plimsolls in Camp so that the Sun and the warm air could get to 'growing bodies'.This was about a hundred years before it's time and part of BP's ideas about 'Health and Well being' before there was such a Term.Dr.Stu..