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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VI
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When he consulted Pancoast the horns had nearly all fallen off and were brought to the physician for inspection; and the photograph was taken after the patient had tied the horns in situ on his face.
Anomalies of the Hair .-- Congenital alopecia is quite rare, and it is seldom that we see instances of individuals who have been totally destitute of hair from birth.

Danz knew of two adult sons of a Jewish family who never had hair or teeth.

Sedgwick quotes the case of a man of fifty-eight who ever since birth was totally devoid of hair and in whom sensible perspiration and tears were absent.

A cousin on his mother's side, born a year before him, had precisely the same peculiarity.

Buffon says that the Turks and some other people practised depilatory customs by the aid of ointments and pomades, principally about the genitals.


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