Volume 1
A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South.
- Adolph Wilhelm Otto
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![hair with more difficulty, the nails with still more, &c. The opinion® that horny parts, viz. the hair and nails, grow after death, is founded on false accounts. (1) I have more rarely observed, for instance, the deficiency of the horny excrescences, or chestnuts as they are called, on the insides of the legs of the horse, the size of which also varies very much. ‘Their absence in the horse and mule is described by Havemann Anleitung zur Beurtheilung des aussern Pferdes, p. 194, 3d edit. Hannov. 1822; and Greve Bruchstiicke zur ver- gleichenden Anatomie und Physiologie, p. 388. 8vo. Oldenburg, 1818. (2) Plenck Lehre von den Hautkrankheiten, a. d. Lat. p. 141. 8vo. Leipz. 1789.—Piccinelli Memoria sull’ origine e cura di quelle escrescenze impro- priamente chiamate corna umane. 8vo. Bergamo, 1816.—Meckel in Handb. der pathol. Anat. Vol. II. p. 276. fi—Jrnst D. de corneis hum. corp. excres- centilis, quarum generali brevique notitie singularis casus de hominis cujusdam corneis excrescentiis adjectus est. 4to. Berol. 1819.—Many similar cases have been collected by Plouquet, Repertorium, Art. Corn. hominum.— Other instances are Mannagetita and Detharding in Misc. Acad. N.C. Dec. I. Ann. I. p. 103; Dec. IIT. Ann. V. and VI. App. 148.—Lanzoni Misc. Acad. N.C. Dec. III. Ann. IV. p. 152, on the forehead of a boy.—Lauchmund ib. 1673 and 74. p. 239, Dec. III. Ann. III. App. p. 109, on the top of the foot— Koenig ib. Dec, I. Ann. X. 1691, p. 208, on the great toe.—Goguelin s. Sedillot Rec. périodique de la Soc. de Médec. de Paris. Vol. LIV. p. 96, on the back of the head.— Rochefort in Mém. de |’Acad. de Chir. Vol. III. Hist. p.7, on the loins.—Majorat in Gazette salutaire de Bouillon. 1788. v. Hufeland’s Annalen. Vol. I. p. 447, No. 109, on the forehead.—Caldani in Mem. di Verona. Vol. XVI. p. 127, on the head.—Rigal in Dict. des Sc. médical. Vol. IV. p. 251, on the breast- bone and on the tuberosity of the ischium.—Alibert, ib. two horns on the back of the head.— O¢éo Selt. Beob. Part I. p. 169, on the back of the hand.—Ber- trand in Archives générales de Médecine, August 1824, on the head.—v. Plon- nies in v. Frortep’s Notizen, 1824, No. 135, p. 33, with plates, on the head; other cases, ib.—Pensa in*Giornale medico Neapolitano, Settembre, 1825 ; v. Froriep, . Vol. XVI. p. 89, one on the head, the other on the back. Vol. VIII. p. 112. Description and engraving of knobby growths on the hands and feet of Lorenz Ruff by Behrends, translated by Dr. W. Soemmerring, fol. p. 10. Frankf. a M. 1825, two cases on the head.—4d. Cooper, in his and Travers’ Surg. Essays, Part II. pl. 8. fig. 8 and 9.— Wiesenthal in New England Journ. of Medic. and Surgery. Boston, 1819, on the breast.—Ansiaux Clinique chirurgicale. Liege, 1816, on the forehead. — Medical Repository, New-York, 1819, n. series, Vol. V. Part I. on the head, very large and divided. I have seen two twisted horns, several inches long, from the head of a woman, in the Museum of Ch. Bell in London; another from the head in the Museum of St. Thomas’s Hos- pital, London; another 2% inches long, and as thick as one’s finger, from the back of the head, in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. Concerning horns on the glans penis, v. Penis. —[ Vie d’ dzyr Observation sur une corne humaine, in Hist. de la Soc. Roy. de Méd. Vol. V. p. 294.—E. Home, Observations on cer- tain horny excrescences of the human body, in which are given Mr. Hunter’s notions respecting the production of such excrescences. v. Phil. Trans. Vol. LXXXI. p. 95. (3) Malpight found a horn hanging on the neck of an ox. vy. Phil. Trans. 1684, p. 601. In oxen, especially in those of southern countries, the horns are not unfrequently attached merely by skin; in the Hunterian Museum, London, I saw a misshapen horny growth from the forehead of an ox, and a similar one in the Anat. Mus. at Oxford, hollow, an inch and a half in length, and an inch in diameter at the base. [J. Parsons, M.D. On a sheep shewn alive to the Royal Soc. in Noy. 1754, having a monstrous horn growing from his throat, &c. which weighed twenty-six pounds. Phil. Trans. Vol. XLIX. p. 183. T.] A very large horn from the side of a sheep. v. Museum regium Danicum Olig. Jacobi, p. 6, engraved in Valentin’s amphith, zootomicum, p. 130;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0126.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
