Cases of diseased prepuce and scrotum / [William Wadd].

  • William Wadd
Date:
1817
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Credit: Cases of diseased prepuce and scrotum / [William Wadd]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Horns have been found to grow from various parts of the body. In the Gazette de Sante of Lyons, is an account of a young woman, who had two growing on her arm. one on the middle of the radius of the right arm, three inches in length, and nearly the same in circumference; the other lower, and not quite so large. The forehead has been very frequently ornamented with horns. Homines Cornuti, having been described Irom the earliest periods. Some have supposed these to be formed of the substance of the hair, asserting that hair is horn split into threads. It is certain that the chemical properties of cuticle, horn, nail, and hair, are the same. Zacutus, de Praxi. Medic, gives an account of a cor- nuted man, who would not part with his horn, “ which was supposed to have been occasioned by his mother looking at the picture of an unicorn. Many pleasantries, on this subject, are to be found in foreign journals; and our own country has produced some remarkable instances, of which, Mary Davis, and Margaret Vergh Gryfith, perhaps are the most remarkable. Printed by SaiiTu and Davy, 17, Queen Street, Seven Dlalf.
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