fortitude or pathology?
"According to legend, the Roman boy Guy Muzio was, stole into the Etruscans camp, kill the king Porsenna, besieged the city. However, he was caught. Porsena threatened him with cruel torture, and demanded to give associates. Wanting to show how little he was afraid of pain and death, Muzio he lowered his right hand in the fire and did not utter a sound until the smoldering hand ".
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an example of this heroic action brought millions of children.
And yet somehow do not like to think that insensitivity Mutsiya (who was later nicknamed Scaevola - "Lefty") to pain could be the result of not (only) strength of spirit, and some diseases, such as lack of pain receptors or poor conduction of nerve impulses.
Well you do not want to even think about it! )))
As I wrote here, in stories not my forte, so I do not remember how to name a certain Russian prince, who was considered too proud, because he is to no one bowed his head (for which he was then, incidentally, killing). So, as a child reading the results of an autopsy tomb of this prince. It turned out that a person from birth fused several vertebrae, causing it physically was not able to tilt your head. And everybody thought that it was of pride ...
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