Superstition and dogmatic belief have been dealt with a severe blow in a recent incident of new born baby went up in flames. A male child born of a rural couple in Villupuram, Tamil Nadu had gone up in flames four times intermittendly in about a couple of months.
The baby is now under medical surveillance in the air-conditioned intensive care unit of the Kilpauk Medical College at Chennai. Dr. Narayan Babu, the paediatrician has observed that this rarest of rare phenomena is known as a spontaneous human combustion. Methane gas and fat tissues that are congenital in human body might have generated a highly inflammable acetone which gets aflame when emerges out through the skin. More so, if the place is warm or if somebody smokes nearby. The baby’s skin has gone to biopsy test but somehow the baby is gradually recovering.
What is heartening to note is that as counselled by close relatives, the parents of the body have not taken him to a pilgrim centre to propitiate the gods and goddesses. However it is this case that demands the development of scientific temper among the populace both in rural and unborn centres.
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