When he consulted Pancoast the horns had
nearly all fallen off and were brought to the physician for
inspection; and the photograph was taken after the patient had
tied the horns in situ on his face.
Anomalies of the Hair.--Congenital alopecia is quite rare, and it
is seldom that we see instances of individuals who have been
totally destitute of hair from birth. Danz knew of two adult sons
of a Jewish family who never had hair or teeth. Sedgwick quotes
the case of a man of fifty-eight who ever since birth was totally
devoid of hair and in whom sensible perspiration and tears were
absent. A cousin on his mother's side, born a year before him,
had precisely the same peculiarity. Buffon says that the Turks
and some other people practised depilatory customs by the aid of
ointments and pomades, principally about the genitals. Atkinson
exhibited in Philadelphia a man of forty who never had any
distinct growth of hair since birth, was edentulous, and
destitute of the sense of smell and almost of that of taste. He
had no apparent perspiration, and when working actively he was
obliged to wet his clothes in order to moderate the heat of his
body. He could sleep in wet clothes in a damp cellar without
catching cold.
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