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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VI
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'He could shut any particular eye, the other three remaining open, or, indeed, as many as he chose, each several eye seeming to be controlled by his will and acting independently of the remainder.

He could also revolve each eye separately in its orbit, looking backward with one and forward with another, upward with one and downward with another simultaneously.' He was of a savage, malignant disposition, delighting in ugly tricks, teasing children, torturing helpless animals, uttering profane and blasphemous words, and acting altogether like the monster, mental and physical, that he was.

'He could play the fiddle, though in a silly sort, having his notes on the left side, while closing the right pair of eyes.

He also sang, but in a rough, screeching voice not to be listened to without disgust.'" There is a recent report of a child born in Paris with its eyes in the top of its head.

The infant seemed to be doing well and crowds of people have flocked to see it.


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