The occipitofrontalis muscle had no action
on them. The second case was that of an idiot of forty-four of a
more degraded type than the previous one. The cranium was round
and bullet-shaped and the hair generally thick. The scalp was not
so lax as in the other case, but the furrows were more crooked.
By tickling the scalp over the back of the neck the two median
furrows involuntarily deepened.
Impervious Skin.--There have been individuals who claimed that
their skin was impervious to ordinary puncture, and from time to
time these individuals have appeared in some of the larger
medical clinics of the world for inspection. According to a
recent number of the London Graphic, there is in Berlin a
Singhalese who baffles all investigations by physicians by the
impenetrability of his skin. The bronzed Easterner, a Hercules in
shape, claims to have found an elixir which will render the human
skin impervious to any metal point or sharpened edge of a knife
or dagger, and calls himself the "Man with Iron Skin." He is now
exhibiting himself, and his greatest feat is to pass with his
entire body through a hoop the inside of which is hardly big
enough to admit his body and is closely set with sharp
knife-points, daggers, nails, and similar things.
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