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A MAALOX MOMENT.(sword swallowing)
No one asked if there was a doctor in the house, but during a recent performance of the show "Carnival Knowledge," whose star, Todd Robbins, swallows swords and eats glass, a doctor by the name of Jonathan Cohen was in the audience. The doctor brought a certain connoisseurship to a stage act built around the alimentary tract: in the 2003 edition of "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area," he's listed under "Gastroenterologists." But, despite his specialized learning, he was filled with wonder at the goings on. When Robbins took a full bow from the waist with a two-foot-long blade jammed down his gullet, the doctor had the same reaction as everyone else: he gasped with delight and burst into applause.
Although Dr. Cohen and Robbins had never met, arrangements had been made for the two men to get together after the show to discuss the performance from a medical standpoint. The meeting took place in Robbins's dressing room. For someone who had recently dined on a light bulb and afterward hammered a nail into his nostril, he looked rather fit. The doctor praised the performer for his knowledge of anatomy: "I'm sure you could go to a medical school and do a very interesting lecture as a correlate to the gross-anatomy course."
"Exactly!" Robbins exclaimed. "The act is based on principles of physics and anatomy, and since most people sleep through Physics and Anatomy, the secrets are safe."
He duly elucidated the Human Blockhead, that routine involving hammer, nail, and nostril (the nail, by the way, is four and a half inches long). "People think it goes in the sinus," he said. "I correct them. It goes in the back of the throat. As a matter of fact, when I have the thing in and I'm talking, the vibration has a tendency to push it out a little bit."
Dr. Cohen asked ...
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