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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VI
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Not long ago there appeared the famous so-called "Seven Sutherland Sisters," whose hair touched the ground, and with whom nearly every one is familiar through a hair tonic which they extensively advertised.

In Nature, January 9, 1892, is an account of a Percheron horse whose mane measured 13 feet and whose tail measured almost ten feet, probably the greatest example of excessive mane development on record.

Figure 88 represents Miss Owens, an exhibitionist, whose hair measured eight feet three inches.

In Leslie's Weekly, January 2, 1896, there is a portrait of an old negress named Nancy Garrison whose woolly hair was equally as long.
The Ephemerides contains the account of a woman who had hair from the mons veneris which hung to the knees; it was affected with plica polonica, as was also the other hair of the body.
Rayer saw a Piedmontese of twenty-eight, with an athletic build, who had but little beard or hair on the trunk, but whose scalp was covered with a most extraordinary crop.

It was extremely fine and silky, was artificially frizzled, dark brown in color, and formed a mass nearly five feet in circumference.
Certain pathologic conditions may give rise to accidental growths of hair.


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