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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VI
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All but the seventh were living and in good health and mentally without defect.

The parents and other relatives were dark.

Figure 73 portrays an albino family by the name of Cavalier who exhibited in Minneapolis in 1887.
Examples of the total absence of pigment occur in all races, but particularly is it interesting when seen in negroes who are found absolutely white but preserving all the characteristics of their race, as, for instance, the kinky, woolly hair, flattened nose, thick lips, etc.

Rene Claille, in his "Voyage a Tombouctou," says that he saw a white infant, the offspring of a negro and negress.

Its hair was white, its eyes blue, and its lashes flaxen.


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