The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-15
WONDER an MEXICO.
, instinct Faces Possessed by q
Bright Little Girl.
Fr,n the Philadelphia Inquirer.

r. the FnftUuetDtfb inquirer.
,-u YORK, July 12.-Accounts of a
ro,narkable freak of nature were
W. ht IN New York yesterday by Next
Pr asnaDers. The curiosity consists of
+..Ia GIRL. who is formed in the usual way,
hat "A second face has made its ap-
n1p,ca on one of her thighs. The case
FeAl.'i-os TO be one Of the most notable In
p'na,n'ools of medical science. and the little
ue all nrobably become the object of
pH,.;ation, on the part of enterprising
rs museum proprietors the world over.
any, aso has already begun to excite great in
ou lt and considerable comment in the
isl,oof Michoacan, Mexico, in which she
sa'o and She was recently removed from
~ her native place, TO Moreha, the
OlI.oi If Michoacan. La Voz de la Justt-
t at ~ A0ua Calientes, the capital of the
GU u.oof me same name, which lies little
gov SOL If the state of Michoacan. in its issue
" f,1ra d. contains this brief but rather
startling paragraph:
brought from Charo TO Morella little girl,
U.j-,9aro who has face on her right hip
% ~, COMPRESS the cheeks of this face it
.o,s the ewes. The face has three teeth,
w., me nose is missing. Salguero Is about
Years of age and is the daughter of a
native Of Charo."
AN EDITOR WHO SAW 1T.
much more satisfactory account,
,rTh.lv differing in one or two details, is
zen in the Daily MenSagsTS of Vera
SGrnz the principal newspaper Of that city,
Ubich takes its account from La Gdcetd,
Of Mchoacan;
I'm the Photographic study of the School
of Arts Of this city" says the editor of La
Gaceta 1--WE had the opportunity of seeing
hot M oh tod ,rfv-I
who possesses what is termed in medical
science a corgenital cyst. and which has re-
shifted In the formation of a second face in
the region Of the thighs. The little girl is n
innocent creature. Her couDtenance is a
sympathetic one, and nothing would lead
Won to suspect the existence of that terrible
defect in her organization which among all
born creatures, makes her one Of the rarest
beings.
"She is the daughter of second mar
rage and answers to the name OF Estanislao
Arichi She was born in Charo. and few
days after her birth her mother abandoned
her on account of her deformity. When
she had been III the world about two years
an Inflammation of the whole left region of
the thigh set in and finally developed into
monstrous cyst Then, by degrees, there
appeared a rudimentary eye, then an eye
brow, ole wing of the nose, curly eyelashes
and nndIly Jn6 OEneF brow.
AN ACCUMULATION OF UGLINEss.
Next appeared one row of four teeth,
slight growth of hair on what may be
termed the end of the forehead, and other
details which constitute the rudimsnts of a
human face, with CHASTITY aspect This &C.
emulation Of uglineSs IL one of the most
singular Of human faces that we have ever
seen, ends In a sort OF nipple, probably q
documentary part of some upper or lower
Lul0 Of the being who must have been thus
amaganated with the unfortunate Estan-
is.a) who, IN view OF her good health aud
illoc5nt ways, would seem to be the least
likely to be visited by SO lamentable mis-
tOrJuAe.
rne good people who have reared the
little one, upon the strange appearance of
what seemed to indicate a new being,
sought their bishop in their guileless inno-
conce t. learn If new baptism was neces-
sary. The cyst of the little one is about
fifteen centlmeters in circumference and
produces upon all who look upon it the
singular effect of the monstrous face of a
plerrott who laughs scoffingly at all who
confront him."
WHAT PHYSICIANS SAY,
The discrepancy in the matter of the
name or this unfortunate little girl in the
above descriptions may, perhaps, be ac-
counted LOT on the supposition that the
name OF the child's mother has been asso-
ciated with her in the one case lit is a COM
mon custom in Mexico for child to receive
her mothers nalne) while the name given
to the girl by the foster parents who have
cared for her ever since her desertion by
her mother has been used in the other ac-
count. In view Of the extraordinary
nature OF this case the In
qutrer correspondent visited the
SaI
No. "a Madison Avenue, to learn whether
there was any records of a similar phenome-
non. The librarian Ia charge declared
that the case of the Mexican girl was one of
the most remarkable ever known He said
that he had seen no mention of such case
as yet in any medical journal, but added
tdat 1t was quite possible to conceive how
such maltorlnation might arise. 1t woald
be in the nature of a twin formation. par
TALLY developed at the same time with the
little Estanislao, and at last engrafted or
embedded IN the body Of the infant.
SIMILAR CASES KNOWN.
DIR. Cyrus Edison of the board Of health
declared to me that there was nothing i'm
probable in the main facts of the Mexican
girls case as it had been repor ted, the most
remarkable feature being the fact of its hav-
ing occurred in so low a latitude as Charo,
Mexico. Almost all similar reported cases.
the doctor said, had been in higher latI-
tudes.
This case is not an uncommon one" he
continued, speaking comparatively of rare
Phenomena, although the cyst may be more
remarkably developed in this case than in
most others on record. Considerable allow
ance may safely be made for exaggerations
IN these Mexican accounts. Peculiar cases
IKE this are almost necessarily highly col
ored In their remarkable features when de-
scribed by the ordinary observer, who is
unable to limit himself to the calm, scien-
tlfo description which a conscientious med
zeal man would employ.
AS for instances of the Dermond cyst,
a. this Mexican phenomena would be called,
nave seen several such cases myself, aud
many such are recorded. One cyst of this
tort which 1 examined, contained q we'll
formed jaw set with teeth and some hair.
Teeth and hair are especially likely to be
present in these cysts." Dr. Edison further
SAID that the appearance of features of the
y d uman face in cysts was regarded as evil
uence that they were the rudiments of
cnllds head which had been early checked
IN the growth, and became engrafted or
embedded IN the flesh of the normally de-
NelOpeQ child which Waa horn with ha