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mrock | January 28, 2009 07:06 PM | in Diseases & Conditions

Cello Scrotum, what is it?

Is this a real condition?

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drmatt | January 28, 2009 07:09 PM

The BBC reports it as BS. It's a hoax brought on by a doctor.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7853564.stm

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easyeboy | January 28, 2009 07:10 PM

It's a hoax.

Elaine Murphy - now Baroness Murphy - dreamt up the painful complaint in the 1970s, sending a report to the British Medical Journal.
She came clean when the hoax resurfaced in the 2008 Christmas edition.
A BMJ spokesman said the inclusion and subsequent debunking of "cello scrotum" had "added to the gaiety of life".

The spoof was inspired by a similar report of a phenomenon called "guitar nipple", which happened when the edge of the guitar was pressed against the breast, causing irritation.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7853564.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/28/uk.cello.scrotum.hoax/index.html...

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robbrown | January 28, 2009 07:10 PM

"in 1974, in a letter to the British Medical Journal, Elaine Murphy reported that cellists suffered from the painful complaint caused by their instrument repeatedly rubbing against their body.

The claim had been inspired by reports in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) about the alleged condition guitar nipple, caused by irritation when the guitar was pressed against the chest."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090128/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_scrotum

It was a joke / haox

"[Murphy] came clean when the hoax resurfaced in the 2008 Christmas edition.

A BMJ spokesman said the inclusion and subsequent debunking of "cello scrotum" had "added to the gaiety of life".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7853564.stm

A comprehensive list of articles relating to the hoax can be found here:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=Music+Medical+Condition+Hoax

Also, just over 100 news articles relating to the hoax can be found here:
http://news.google.ca/news?oe=utf-8&ncl=1297887681

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djscram | January 28, 2009 07:11 PM

No. CNN just reported on this, it was a hoax, perpetrated by a British lawmaker who saw an article about Guitarist's Nipple. The hoax persisted for thirty years.

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/28/uk.cello.scrotum.hoax/index.html...

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dattappan | January 28, 2009 08:24 PM

For decades, male cellists guarded their balls in fear, but it turns out the dreaded "cello scrotum" was all a miserable lie. Thirty-five years ago, Elaine Murphy, "a member of The House of Lords and a trained doctor," submitted an article to the British Medical Journal about the fake condition as a prank, she revealed today. "She made up [the] cello scrotum ailment after reading about 'guitarist's nipple' in 1974,"