Some curious instances have been related of an infant with a
two-colored face, and of others with one side of the face white
and the other black; whether they were cases of partial albinism
or partial melanism cannot be ascertained from the descriptions.
Such epidermic anomalies as ichthyosis, scleroderma, and
molluscum simplex, sometimes appearing shortly after birth, but
generally seen later in life, will be spoken of in the chapter on
Anomalous Skin Diseases.
Human horns are anomalous outgrowths from the skin and are far
more frequent than ordinarily supposed. Nearly all the older
writers cite examples. Aldrovandus, Amatus Lusitanus, Boerhaave,
Dupre, Schenck, Riverius, Vallisneri, and many others mention
horns on the head. In the ancient times horns were symbolic of
wisdom and power. Michael Angelo in his famous sculpture of Moses
has given the patriarch a pair of horns. Rhodius observed a
Benedictine monk who had a pair of horns and who was addicted to
rumination. Fabricius saw a man with horns on his head, whose son
ruminated; the son considered that by virtue of his ruminating
characteristics his father had transmitted to him the peculiar
anomaly of the family. Fabricius Hildanus saw a patient with
horns all over the body and another with horns on the forehead.
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