Jamieson reports a case in
which there were 250, and in Maclaren's case there were 132.
According to Crocker, Hebra and Rayer also each had a case. In a
case of Sangster, reported by Politzer, although most of the
dermoids, as usual, were like fibroma-nodules and therefore the
color of normal skin, those over the mastoid processes and
clavicle were lemon-yellow, and were generally thought to be
xanthoma until they were excised, and Politzer found they were
typical dermoid cysts with the usual contents of degenerated
epithelium and hair.
Hermaphroditism.--Some writers claim that Adam was the first
hermaphrodite and support this by Scriptural evidence. We find in
some of the ancient poets traces of an Egyptian legend in which
the goddess of the moon was considered to be both male and
female. From mythology we learn that Hermaphroditus was the son
of Hermes, or Mercury, and Venus Aphrodite, and had the powers
both of a father and mother. In speaking of the foregoing
Ausonius writes, "Cujus erat facies in qua paterque materque
cognosci possint, nomen traxit ab illis." Ovid and Virgil both
refer to legendary hermaphrodites, and the knowledge of their
existence was prevalent in the olden times.
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