These spots
occupied about one-fifth of the surface of this child's skin.
Campaignac in the early part of this century exhibited a case in
which there was a large tuft of long black hair growing from the
shoulder. Dufour has detailed a case of a young man of twenty
whose sacral region contained a tuft of hair as long and black,
thick and pliant, as that of the head, and, particularly
remarkable in this case, the skin from which it grew was as fine
and white as the integument of the rest of the body. There was a
woman exhibited recently, under the advertisement of "the lady
with a mane," who had growing from the center of her back between
the shoulders a veritable mane of long, black hair, which
doubtless proceeded from a form of naevus.
Duyse reports a case of extensive hypertrichosis of the back in a
girl aged nine years; her teeth were normal; there was
pigmentation of the back and numerous pigmentary nevi on the
face. Below each scapula there were tumors of the nature of
fibroma molluscum. In addition to hairy nevi on the other parts
of the body there was localized ichthyosis.
Ziemssen figures an interesting case of naevus pilosus resembling
"bathing tights". There were also present several benign tumors
(fibroma molluscum) and numerous smaller nevi over the body.
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