Sands speaks of a woman who had a horn 6 3/4 inches
long, growing from her head. There is an account of the
extirpation of a horn nearly ten inches in length from the
forehead of a woman of eighty-two. Bejau describes a woman of
forty from whom he excised an excrescence resembling a ram's
horn, growing from the left parietal region. It curved forward
and nearly reached the corresponding tuberosity. It was eight cm.
long, two cm. broad at the base, and 1 1/2 cm. at the apex, and
was quite mobile. It began to grow at the age of eleven and had
constantly increased. Vidal presented before the Academie de
Medecine in 1886 a twisted horn from the head of a woman. This
excrescence was ten inches long, and at the time of presentation
reproduction of it was taking place in the woman. Figure 76 shows
a case of ichthyosis cornea pictured in the Lancet, 1850.
There was a woman of seventy-five, living near York, who had a
horny growth from the face which she broke off and which began to
reproduce, the illustration representing the growth during twelve
months. Lall mentions a horn from the cheek; Gregory reports one
that measured 7 1/2 inches long that was removed from the temple
of a woman in Edinburgh; Chariere of Barnstaple saw a horn that
measured seven inches growing from the nape of a woman's neck;
Kameya Iwa speaks of a dermal horn of the auricle; Saxton of New
York has excised several horns from the tympanic membrane of the
ear; Noyes speaks of one from the eyelid; Bigelow mentions one
from the chin; Minot speaks of a horn from the lower lip, and
Doran of one from the neck.
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