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Ectodermal dysplasia is a group of conditions in which there is abnormal development of the skin, hair, nails, teeth, or sweat glands.
People with ectodermal dysplasia may not sweat or may have decreased sweating because of a lack of sweat glands.
Children with the disease may have difficulty controlling fevers. Mild illness can produce extremely high fevers, because the skin cannot sweat and control temperature properly.
Affected adults are unable to tolerate a warm environment and need special measures to keep a normal body temperature.
Possible Complications
Brain damage caused by increased body temperature
Seizures caused by high fever.
Several things:
- In the 1940s, national security interests would have trumped any local laws. Australia had a intelligence paractice called a "D notice" which was often used by their intelligence service and that of the UK to prevent publication or discussion of issues involve national interest.
- Using a poison in the era before spectrographic analysis was anything other than theory was very easy. Especially if the poison in question was something exotic.
- A drowning, even with a head injury, would still be treated as a drowning unless there was some reason not to treat it as such.
- "Send a message to whom?" The man was found in a remote area of Australia. Not near the atomic test site; not near a military installation. Criminals would have buried the body or killed in a manner that would be clear that gangsters did it (shooting,stabbing,garroting,etc)
- Removing labels is unnecessary to prevent identification. It's actually spy novel nonsense. Unless clothes are tailored (or bespoke) labels would only tell where the clothes MAY have been purchased, not who purchased them.
- A stowaway would be near other stowaways/illegal immigrants,especially in the 1940s. Australia had a "White Australia" policy at the time. While they attempted to "import" more ethnic Europeans to the nation, immigration was a sensitive subject then (as it is now, although for different reasons)
- The suitcase and the "code" in the book (if that indeed what it is) may have nothing to do with the body which was found. The passage of time and the lack of leads may have allowed law enforcement and tellers of the tale to conflate the two when they may have nothing to do with the other.
Ultimately, exhuming the body and performing a modern autopsy is the only solution for this "mystery", if it indeed is one. That could determine if this was a murder or not.
If it was not a murder, then the only mystery is the man's identity. Given that people were displaced around the world in the wake of the Second World War, that may be a mystery which will remain unsolved.
Yes, it does seem a bit odd that both the book at the suitcase have disappeared.
It's also interesting that, along with Jessica's phone number written on the back of the Rubaiyat, there was also the phone number of a bank. I find it odd that there has not been more reported about this. The fact that SM didn't have any money on him seems strange and I wonder if he was waiting for a deposit to clear at the bank belonging to that phone number.
There was already a thread for this case, and I merged your new thread with the existing one.
This case is probably solved. Internationally renowned anatomist and biological anthropologist Professor Maciej Henneberg, of Adelaide University believes that Somerton Man was a British seaman named H.C. Reynolds.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/is-br...ach-body-mystery/story-e6frea6u-1226200076344
Here is his ID card from 1918 (30 years before Somerton Man's death).
You all know that South Australia was home to a top secret American army base back then?
There are still some here I believe.
There were rumours that Somerton Man was a Russian Spy.
The removed clothing tags and ID and crazy COD tends to support this whacky theory :moo: