' He was of a
savage, malignant disposition, delighting in ugly tricks, teasing
children, torturing helpless animals, uttering profane and
blasphemous words, and acting altogether like the monster, mental
and physical, that he was. 'He could play the fiddle, though in a
silly sort, having his notes on the left side, while closing the
right pair of eyes. He also sang, but in a rough, screeching
voice not to be listened to without disgust.'"
There is a recent report of a child born in Paris with its eyes
in the top of its head. The infant seemed to be doing well and
crowds of people have flocked to see it. Recent reports speak of
a child born in Portland, Oregon, which had a median rudimentary
eye between two normal eyes. Fournier describes an infant born
with perfectly formed eyes, but with adherent eyelids and closed
ocular aperture. Forlenze has seen the pupils adherent to the
conjunctiva, and by dissection has given sight to the subject.
Dubois cites an instance of supernumerary eyelid. At the external
angle of the eyelid was a fold of conjunctiva which extended 0.5
cm. in front of the conjunctiva, to which it did not adhere,
therefore constituting a fourth eyelid. Fano presents a similar
case in a child of four months, in whom no other anomaly, either
of organs or of vision, was observed.
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