Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by George M Gould
and Walter L Pyle
Original Copyright 1896
by W.B. Saunders
Warren mentions a case under the care of Dubois, in a woman from
whose forehead grew a horn six inches in diameter and six inches in
height. It was hard at the summit and had a fetid odor. In 1696
there was an old woman in France who constantly shed long horns
from her forehead, one of which was presented to the King.
Bartholinus mentions a horn 12 inches long. Voigte cites the case
of an old woman who had a horn branching into three portions,
coming from her forehead. Sands speaks of a woman who had a horn 6
and three quarter inches long, growing from her head. There is an
account of the extirpation of a horn nearly ten inches in length
from the forehead of a woman of eighty-two. Bejau describes a woman
of forty from whom he excised an excrescence resembling a ram's
horn, growing from the left parietal region. It curved forward and
nearly reached the corresponding tuberosity. It was eight cm. long,
two cm. broad at the base, and 1 and a half cm. at the apex, and
was quite mobile. It began to grow at the age of eleven and had
constantly increased. Vidal presented before the Academie de
Medecine in 1886 a twisted horn from the head of a woman. This
excrescence was ten inches long, and at the time of presentation
reproduction of it was taking place in the woman. There was a woman
of seventy-five, living near York, who had a horny growth from the
face which she broke off and which began to reproduce. Lall
mentions a horn from the cheek ; Gregory reports one that measured
7 and a half inches long that was removed from the temple of a
woman in Edinburgh; Chariere of Barnstaple saw a horn that measured
seven inches growing from the nape of a woman's neck; Kameya Iwa
speaks of a dermal horn of the auricle; Saxton of New York has
excised several horns from the tympanic membrane of the ear; Noyes
speaks of one from the eyelid; Bigelow mentions one from the chin;
Minot C speaks of a horn from the lower lip, and Doran of one from
the neck.
