The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-15
MEN AND WOMEN WITH HORNS

MEN AND WOMEN WITH HORNS.
 This phenomenon is more frequently met with than is generally believed. Such is the force of prejudice that nearly all of us would rather have two noses or four feet than the emblem which in bygone ages was considered the supreme ornament of man. It is in this view that horns are attributed to gods and heroes. Alexander the great, when he proclaimed himself the son of Jupiter, gave orders that on the coins which should be struck thereafter he should be represented bearing horns. Michel Angelo. when he made a. statue of Moses, depicted the Hebrew legisla- tor with horns, as a sign of manly strength. The kings of India were wont to have horns attached to their helmets as a mark of their supreme rank. The great gods, like Jupiter, Pan and even Astarte, the goddess of the Syrians, were represented with horns, as an indication of their mighty power. In the course of time the horn lost it's significance, and ceased to be regarded as mark of splendor, force and digni- ty.
 M. Villeneuve has written a book in which he describes seventy-one cases of i horned human beings. Fifty per cent. of these occurred in the cases of men who had the horns, like animals, on the forehead. The statistics show that more women are horned than men, and the horns of the women are usually longer than those of men. In the Brit ish Museum Is the largest specimen of a human horn. It is eight inches in length and ornamented the head of noble Englishman. In the seventeenth century a Mrs. Allen of Leicestershire, England, had q pair of horns. So far from being ashamed, she was proud of them, and wore them as an ornament all her life They attracted to her, it is told, numerous admirers Another Englishwoman of the same town, known as the beautiful Mary Davis had pair of horns, which were regard ed as an addition to her charms. She had them cut off four times but they grew again One growth was presented to King Henry ". of France.
 M. Lamprey and other travellers have told of people who number among them numerous specimens of horned men and women. These people are found in cer- tain regions of western Africa. In 1884, NJ Lamprey relates, he found in the African territory of Ganim several im- posing types of horned men and wo- men. One of these was majestic looking negro with two horns, which in his case spranaaone from each side of the nose. A Mexican named Rodnigues is described as having horn on the side of his head. about seven inches long, with three hanches like the horn of stag.
 Are horns hereditary? It would ap- pear from the observations of physi- clans who have carefully studied these excrescences that they are sometimes hereditary, though not as a general rule Nj. Dublanc relates in the Journal de Pharmacie for 1880 that the Medical society sent him for analysis three l1u- man horns, of which one was cut from the head of the grandfather of the per- son who bore the other two. Animals that are not usually horned sometimes, like the human race, put forth unex- pectedly a declaration of this kind There are welI-authenticate cases of horns being found on dogs, horses and hares; and there is even one case rela- ted by a trustworthy physician of their being seen on a cat What is the na- ture of this horn formation? Accord ing to Malpighi, whose opinion is enti- tied to great weight, horns are the ner- vous prolongation of the skin. Bieschu, another judge not to be despised, says they are due to morbid secretion Without entering into details on this subject, it may be said that it is agreed that in their essence human horns are analogous, in their substance, to that of the horns of animals, to human nails, and the claws of beasts. What ever 1t may be, these excrescences do not treaten either the health or the life of those who have them.-Revue des Revues, Paris.
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