Evening star., 1901-08-10
MEN WITH HORNS
Fresh Scientific Evidence That Such
Monstrosities Exist.
4 NUMBER OF CASES ON RECORD
Females Are More Often Afflicted
Than Males.
REPORTED BY SCIENTISTS
Written for The Evening Star.

| Written for The Evening Star.
| Reports descriptive Of some remarkable
| species Of horned men, scattered through
| out the world. have been received at the
| Medical Museum. In sensational features
| they rival the accounts Of tailed human be-
| ings recently made public.
Surgeon J. J. Lamprey OF the medical
| staff of the British army some time ago
| met with and studied three horned men In
| Africa. Each had two horns, one on either
side Of his nose.
while serving on the Gold Coast" says
| he. Il had opportunities Of making draw
| ings Of these individuals. The first horned
| man had an opportunity of observing was
| a Fantee named Cofea, aged about thirty
two years, from the little village Of ANA
| quanta, in Wassan territory. The second
horned man was a long-faced youth, aged
about eighteen, named Quassie Jabin. from
the Gamin territory and not kinsman Of
the first one. From a statement made by
him through Fantee interpreter 1 gath
cred that this horn-like growth had been
| In existence as long as he could remember.
The third case was that Of Cudjo Danse,
aged about twenty. He stated through an
interpreter that, as far as he was aware,
this horn-like knob had grown of itself: 1t
certainly had grown larger as he had
grown older. 1t gave him no inconveni-
ence. He could see and smell perfectly. It
grew of itself and had not been artificially
produced"
Hundreds of cases, more remarkable,
have recently been collected in an interest
| Ing report by Drs. George Gould and Wal
ter Pyle, both well-knoWn pathologists.
frequent than ordinarily supposed. Near
ly all the older writer's cite examples.
Many mention horns on the head. In the
ancient times horns We're symbolic Of wis
dom al Lit
famous sculpture of Moses has given the
patriarch pair Of horns
Human Horns of Modern Times.
Probably the most remarkable case was
that OF Paul Rodrigues, Mexican porter,
who from the upper and lateral part of his
head, had horn fourteen inches in cir
conference. divided into three shafts,
which he concealed by constantly wearing
peculiarly shaped cap. There is in Paris
a wax model of horn, eight or nine inches
In length, removed from an old woman by
the celebrated Dr. Souberbielle DR.. War
rem mentions a case under the care of DR..
DUBOIS, OF a woman from whose forehead
grew horn six inches in diameter and six
inches In height. In 1896 there was an old
woman In France who constantly shed
long horns from her forehead, one Of which
was presented to the king. DR.. Voigte
cites the case Of an old woman who had
horn branching into three portions, coming
from her forehead. DR.. Sands speaks of
woman who had q horn 6Z inches long
growing from her head. There is an ac-
count OF the extirpation Of horn nearly
ten inches in length from the forehead of
woman Of eighty-two. DR.. Bejau de-
scrtbes woman of forty from whom he ex-
cised an excrescence resembling a rams
norm 1t began to grow at the age of
eleven. and constantly increased. Dr. VI
dal presented before the Academic de Medi-
cine. France, in 1856, a twisted horn. from
the head Of woman. This was ten inches
long and at the time nf {fs tfov,
reproduction Of 1t was taking place in the
woman"
There is a greater frequency of horns
among women than among men, according
to these authorities. Several cases have
been seen In people over seventy, and In
one of ninety-seyen.
Both Horns and Tail.
The combination Of horns and tail on q
human being would naturally give rise to
extravagant superstition Such a monster
would be an unwelcome object of vision on
dark night. to be sure. There is a de-
scription Of such a case in a medical re-
port. The creature, said to have been dub
BED the Nheodoo Of Plato" was born eight
years ago in Mcleod county, Minnesota,
according to the report. It was q boy five
weeks cid when described. HE had
hair two inches long all over the body;
MS features were f1endfsh and his eyes
shone like beads beneath his shaggy
brows. He had tail eighteen inches long,
horns from the skull, a full set Of teeth
and ciaw-lfke hands. He snapped like
dog and crawled on all fours, and refused
the natural sustenance of normal child
The country people considered this devil
child punishment for rebuff that the
mother gave to Jewish peddler selling
sistence. she said she would sooner have
the devil In her house than one of these
prints But inasmuch as no scientific re-
port setting forth this case in detail an
pears to have ever been made, the public
must be advised to accept the story "cum
grano salis."
Horned Human Rumfnant.
Fabricus. the famous Italian anatomist
Of the. fourteenth century. records that he
saw man with horns on his head and
who -ruminated-ie., chewed the cud. Rhod-
ius, another famous medical authority of
those early times, says that he observed
a Benedictine monk who had a pair of
horns and who was addicted to rumination.
TO the la1ty these cases would appear to
be reversions to possible bovine ancestry.
But upon the whole, they are not so un-
reasonable, from medical point Of view,
as the case Of the "Hoodoo Of Plato"
Human rumination, or cud chewing has
been recognized as fact by medical men
for years. according to Drs. Gould and
Pyle.s Swede. Of thirty-five. living in
Germany. and apparently wealthy. was OBJ
served, they say. by DR.. Winthier to
retire after meals to. some remote place
where he might enjoy this bovine habit
According to the late Dr. Hammond of this
city, former surgeon general Of the army,
the distinguished psychologist, Brown-Se-
guard. acquired the habit as result of
experiments made upon himself. DR.. Ham
mond studieds the case OF q young man,
similarly addicted. who was cured of the
habit by the trephining Of his skull In a
recent discussion Of human ruminatfon be-
for the American Neurological Association
physician reported two cases, both in fel-
low physicians. The president Of the asso-
citation remarked that the habit seemed to
be one common among men Of his profess
sion. He had a student friend affected in
the same way. but who finally overcame
the abnormality by exercise of his viii
power. At the same meeting was discuss
ed a man, his father and his grandfather
all of whom ruminated.
A Frenchman. named Trouillon, with q
large horn on his forehead, resembling that
of. a ram. Is reported to have exhibited
himself In Paris in 1885, while a country
boy. just forty years later. presented him
self at the hospital Of Bologna to have
sawed from his head horn about the size
OF the index finger.
RhfnOcerOs Woman.
DIR. Chatard Of Baltimore some years
ago reported that he had seen In that city