Vallentini in 1884 reports a case of a male
cyclopic infant which lived for seventy-three hours. There were
median fissures of the upper lip, preauricular appendages, oral
deformity, and absence of the olfactory proboscis The fetus was
therefore a cyclops arrhynchus, or cyclocephalus. Blok describes
a new-born infant which lived for six or seven hours, having but
one eye and an extremely small mouth.
The "Four-eyed Man of Cricklade" was a celebrated English
monstrosity of whom little reliable information is obtainable. He
was visited by W. Drury, who is accredited with reporting the
following--
" 'So wondrous a thing, such a lusus naturae, such a scorn and
spite of nature I have never seen. It was a dreadful and shocking
sight.' This unfortunate had four eyes placed in pairs, 'one eye
above the other and all four of a dull brown, encircled with red,
the pupils enormously large.' The vision in each organ appeared
to be perfect. 'He could shut any particular eye, the other three
remaining open, or, indeed, as many as he chose, each several eye
seeming to be controlled by his will and acting independently of
the remainder. He could also revolve each eye separately in its
orbit, looking backward with one and forward with another, upward
with one and downward with another simultaneously.
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