According to Crocker, a still more
extraordinary case, with extensive dermatolytic growths all over
the back and nevi of all sizes elsewhere, is described and
engraved in "Lavater's Physiognomy," 1848. Baker describes an
operation in which a large mole occupying half the forehead was
removed by the knife.
In some instances the hair and beard is of an enormous length.
Erasmus Wilson of London saw a female of thirty-eight, whose hair
measured 1.65 meters long. Leonard of Philadelphia speaks of a
man in the interior of this country whose beard trailed on the
ground when he stood upright, and measured 2.24 meters long. Not
long ago there appeared the famous so-called "Seven Sutherland
Sisters," whose hair touched the ground, and with whom nearly
every one is familiar through a hair tonic which they extensively
advertised. In Nature, January 9, 1892, is an account of a
Percheron horse whose mane measured 13 feet and whose tail
measured almost ten feet, probably the greatest example of
excessive mane development on record. Figure 88 represents Miss
Owens, an exhibitionist, whose hair measured eight feet three
inches. In Leslie's Weekly, January 2, 1896, there is a portrait
of an old negress named Nancy Garrison whose woolly hair was
equally as long.
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