It was a new hypothesis, first written in the answer book of a student of final M.B.B.S. university examination in Obstetrics and Gynecology. It was a short answer question on a dermoid cyst or benign cystic teratoma of the ovary. One of the symptoms caused by a dermoid cyst in the ovary is abdominal pain. the student had hypothesized as follows.
'A dermoid cyst in the ovary causes pain due to caries of a tooth within the cyst'.
A dermoid cyst can have teeth in it. The remaining part of the statement was an example of extremely original thinking. The professors who were correcting the answer books were laughing without a break for 15 minutes. They stopped only when they were exhausted.
'A dermoid cyst in the ovary causes pain due to caries of a tooth within the cyst'.
A dermoid cyst can have teeth in it. The remaining part of the statement was an example of extremely original thinking. The professors who were correcting the answer books were laughing without a break for 15 minutes. They stopped only when they were exhausted.
