San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-23

attained length of near Ave inches FROM
the tumor there sprang horn which grew
with alarming rapidity Tor three or four
months, or until it had grown TO be about the
length of the one over the left ear. Unlike
its mate, the horn which sprang from the tu-
NOR was not fixed, seemingly only attached
to fatty substance which had formed be-
tween the root of the horn and the skull after
the bursting of the tumor.
Taking encouragement from this fact, the
surgeons again applied the knife and left
Pet for the second time possessed of only
the smaller of the original excrescences the
one over the left ear which had ceased to
grow.
From the time of the removal of the sec
ond horn until he was 10 years of age, PETS
parents resided in a remote fishing village,
which caused the Lisbon surgeons to lose all
trace of him. At the age of 10, in the year
1906, he returned to Lisbon and was tried, as
above mentioned, for being an offspring of
or a near relative of his satanic majesty.
At this time Pet had three perfectly de-
veloped horns, one over each ear and one in
the center of the forehead During his ten
or twelve years on the sea coast new horns
had put out from the places from which the
others had been removed and all had become
firmly attached to the skull, and were at the
time of his trial as immovable as those of
ram, which the two on the sides of the head
much resembled.
The one on the forehead pointed nearly
straight out, and was nine and three-quarters
inches in length. The two on the sides of
the head curved downward and backwards,
forming almost a circle around the ears,
measuring from the point around the curve
TO the head about eleven inches. One could
hardly imagine the ludicrous appearance he
presented. In the fisherman's town where
he grew up he was called ''Piet, the Devil"
and "Piet, the Ram" At his trial it was
proven to the satisfaction of all that Pet was
a very pious young man. Notwithstanding his
daholica look. He was acquitted with the
understanding that he would leave Lisbon
forever Years afterwards, in the Fifteenth
century, a skull with three horns, believed to
lie that of Pet, was on exhibition in Rome.
HORNED WOMEN.
The British museum authorities are tho
proud possessors of two or three specimens of
human horns The largest of these, one near
ly foot in length, has been on exhibition in
that institution for over a century and a half.
1t originally grew on the head of lady by
the name of Elizabeth French, who resided
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head of the boy Pet, the horn which grew
from the head of Mrs French was at first
nothing but "a soft fatty tumor. The horn
first made its appearance when the lady was
IS years of age In four years it attained its
maximum length and was removed and placed
in the museum.
In 1868, according to the history of Cheshire,
England, an old lady, whose name is not
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of which grew from single wen which had
troubled her for forty years prior to the APP
pearanoe of the horns.
The two grew side by side, with only about
a half inch of space between them. Each
seemed to repel the other, consequently they
curved in opposite directions. When first
noticed they were about the diameter of a
goose quill, but soon increased to one-half
inch in thickness, which, of course, leSsened
the space between the two. As the lady was
y years OF age at the commencement of her
curious affliction, and owing to the fact that
the horns never attained extraordinary size,
like those of the boy Pet or the woman
French no attempts were ever made to re-
move them People of that TIM were not
given to euphuiSm, therefore the old lady
was often indelicately referred to as the
Hell Cat" and the Mother of Devils"
In the year 1916 Bartholine visited a wo-
man who had horn nearly thirteen inches
long growing from the left temporal muscle.
Like the other cases mentioned this horn
first existed in the shape of common wen
or tumor When the horn first penetrated
the skin the tumor suppurated and dis
charged gritty pus much resembling pow
dered isinglass and water. The horn was
several years growing the first four or five
inches Afterwards the growth became more
rapid at one time it made four inches in as
many months. At the length of ten inches
the attending surgeons believed that it would
grow no longer However, if Bartholine is
to be believed, it did grow nearly three
inches more before it finally fixed at 1873
inches For full account of this wonderful
case, this being the longest human horn on
record, the reader is referred to ''Bartho-
lines Epistles. John w Wright in st.
Louis Republic
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