7. Shattered Dreams
The crux of this one, gentlemen, is whether one can literally die from being kicked in the balls.This cheeky little number in a medical journal from 1843 all-too-briefly describes the German practice of violently squeezing the testicles until the man falls to the ground in convulsions and dies. various reports of a sudden death due to trauma to the knackers. It is thought that these are largely due to something called a vasovagal response, in which the brain overreacts to trauma in the vagus nerve and shuts up shop.
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