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Both she and her brother had hundreds of smaller hairy growths of all sizes scattered irregularly over the face, trunk, and limbs.

According to Crocker, a still more extraordinary case, with extensive dermatolytic growths all over the back and nevi of all sizes elsewhere, is described and engraved in "Lavater's Physiognomy," 1848.

Baker describes an operation in which a large mole occupying half the forehead was removed by the knife.
In some instances the hair and beard is of an enormous length.

Erasmus Wilson of London saw a female of thirty-eight, whose hair measured 1.65 meters long.

Leonard of Philadelphia speaks of a man in the interior of this country whose beard trailed on the ground when he stood upright, and measured 2.24 meters long.


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