Schulz first observed the patient in 1878. This individual's name
was Blake, and he stated that he was born with a large naevus
spreading over the upper parts of the thighs and lower parts of
the trunk, like bathing-tights, and resembling the pelt of an
animal. The same was true of the small hairy parts and the larger
and smaller tumors. Subsequently the altered portions of the skin
had gradually become somewhat larger. The skin of the large hairy
naevus, as well as that of the smaller ones, was stated by Schulz
to have been in the main thickened, in part uneven, verrucose,
from very light to intensely dark brown in color; the consistency
of the larger mammiform and smaller tumors soft, doughy, and
elastic. The case was really one of large congenital naevus
pilosus and fibroma molluscum combined.
A Peruvian boy was shown at the Westminster Aquarium with a dark,
hairy mole situated in the lower part of the trunk and on the
thighs in the position of bathing tights. Nevins Hyde records two
similar cases with dermatolytic growths. A sister of the Peruvian
boy referred to had a still larger growth, extending from the
nucha all over the back. Both she and her brother had hundreds of
smaller hairy growths of all sizes scattered irregularly over the
face, trunk, and limbs.
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