Gould cites the instance of a horn growing from an
epitheliomatous penis. The patient was fifty-two years of age and
the victim of congenital phimosis. He was circumcised four years
previously, and shortly after the wound healed there appeared a
small wart, followed by a horn about the size of a marble. Jewett
speaks of a penile horn 3 1/2 inches long and 3 3/4 inches in
diameter; Pick mentions one 2 1/2 inches long. There is an
account of a Russian peasant boy who had a horn on his penis from
his earliest childhood. Johnson mentions a case of a horn from
the scrotum, which was of sebaceous origin and was subsequently
supplanted by an epithelioma.
Ash reported the case of a girl named Annie Jackson, living in
Waterford, Ireland, who had horny excrescences from her joints,
arms, axillae, nipples, ears, and forehead. Locke speaks of a boy
at the Hopital de la Charite in Paris, who had horny excrescences
four inches long and 11 inches in circumference growing from his
fingers and toes.
Wagstaffe presents a horn which grew from the middle of the leg
six inches below the knee in a woman of eighty. It was a
flattened spiral of more than two turns, and during forty years'
growth had reached the length of 14.
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