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CHAPTER VI
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It had been sawed off twice by the patient's son and was finally extirpated by Faget.

The length of the pieces was 12 inches.
Bellamy saw a horn on the clitoris about the size of a tiger's claw in a its origin from beneath the preputium clitoridis.
Horns are generally solitary but cases of multiple formation are known Lewin and Heller record a syphilitic case with eight cutaneous horns on the palms and soles.

A female patient of Manzuroff had as many as 185 horns.
Pancoast reports the case of a man whose nose, cheeks, forehead, and lips were covered with horny growths, which had apparently undergone epitheliomatous degeneration.

The patient was a sea-captain of seventy-eight, and had been exposed to the winds all his life.

He had suffered three attacks of erysipelas from prolonged exposure.


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