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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER V
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There was a patella in the supernumerary limb on the anal aspect, and a joint freely movable.

This compound limb had no power of motion, but was endowed with sensibility.

A journal in London, after quoting Acton's description, said that the child had been exhibited in Paris, and that the surgeons advised operation.

Fisher, to whom we are indebted for an exhaustive work in Teratology, received a report from Havana in July, 1865, which detailed a description of Santos at twenty-two years of age, and said that he was possessed of extraordinary animal passion, the sight of a female alone being sufficient to excite him.

He was said to use both penises, after finishing with one continuing with the other; but this account of him does not agree with later descriptions, in which no excessive sexual ability had been noticed.


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