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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VI
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This horny growth appeared after small-pox.

Ash, in the Philosophical Transactions, records a somewhat similar case in a girl of twelve.
Anomalies of the Teeth .-- Pliny, Colombus, van Swieten, Haller, Marcellus Donatus, Baudelocque, Soemmering, and Gardien all cite instances in which children have come into the world with several teeth already erupted.

Haller has collected 19 cases of children born with teeth.

Polydorus Virgilus describes an infant who was born with six teeth.

Some celebrated men are supposed to have been born with teeth; Louis XIV was accredited with having two teeth at birth.


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