Spontaneous human combustion or SHC is in the news again as a boy from Tamil Nadu, India keeps catching fire when nothing combustible is around him. Doctors are baffled by this rare condition and say that he emits highly combustible gases from pores of his body.
Let's take a look at what exactly is this SHC?
The first record of spontaneous combustion dates back to 1641 when Danish doctor and mathematician Thomas Bartholin described the death of Polonus Vorstius – who drank wine at home in Milan, Italy, one evening in 1470 before bursting into flames.
Since then more reports of spontaneous combustion have been filed and linked to alcoholism.
Let's take a look at what exactly is this SHC?
The first record of spontaneous combustion dates back to 1641 when Danish doctor and mathematician Thomas Bartholin described the death of Polonus Vorstius – who drank wine at home in Milan, Italy, one evening in 1470 before bursting into flames.
Since then more reports of spontaneous combustion have been filed and linked to alcoholism.
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