62)." From these early times almost to the present day similar significance has been attached to minor structural anomalies.

In the following pages the individual anomalies will be discussed separately and the most interesting examples of each will be cited.

It is manifestly evident that the object of this chapter is to mention the most striking instances of abnormism and to give accompanying descriptions of associate points of interest, rather than to offer a scientific exposition of teratology, for which the reader is referred elsewhere.
Congenital defect of the epidermis and true skin is a rarity in pathology.

Pastorello speaks of a child which lived for two and a half hours whose hands and feet were entirely destitute of epidermis; the true skin of those parts looked like that of a dead and already putrefying child.

Hanks cites the history of a case of antepartum desquamation of the skin in a living fetus.