The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-18
MEN WITH TAILS.
..o,E SPECIES is KNOWN
'N' As HOMO CAUDATUs'

osed to Have Hesiue" ="
Country-A High Dis
in India-Long-Tailed
tl''' sourashtra-Queer Tales
OF Tails. sssv :.
4,.o,,, the washington Starsa Y
aetually dwells on earth to1i
H'' t.ts6 specimen of human beings
day , al 10 DR.. R. Granville Harri-
a'lo' r assooiate professor of anatomy
SOU HopE.ns University. Such
joins 10 announcement from the fac
suIp' l4'' his dignifed and profound in
u-'' If learning is calculated to
crss+e a sensation
..zforo cadatus' is what DR.. Harrl-
IN. This grotesque species. He
s' ut real, live specimen was
..,bibited before the Johns Hop
i'''e-' ,,as,itaI Medical Society. 1t was
-,v.nopths old boy. born with the
. e.rsrous appendage, Whlch, accord
go. - the doctor, gave an impression
'5 mike that of pig s TALL a SINH
Isrirv noted in NUMBER OF cases Inc
lal I,rs was IA centimeters long
al' ,ts .biId was two weeks old, but
III and of six months, when ampu-
~ "a lanethened to five centime-
IT, soared advisable to remove 1t,
80 tba doctor, mot only to accede
49, t,o wishes of the child's parents,
" boarded it's presence with cha
w Int also on more practical
ea+,1s Its rate of growth was con-
4 sei4arable and it did not sem unlikely
4 - tba aDpendage might have later
N s+toinad undue proportions, causing, as
- bsan reported in several instances,
considerable inconvenience in sitting.
m Harrison has preserved the am
/ inflated member in fluid.
1,rom the United States five such
cases have ben reported to the doc
tor's knowledge. Prior to 1884 one
f,,n5red and sixteen authorities had
recorded observations of tailed men.
Seventeen years ago a German scien-
tist published a map showing the va
lions lands supposed to have been, at
one time or another, the haunts of
i human races with tails. These regions
;nclnde not only widely distant por-
tions of South America, Asia and At
RIGA. but the greater part of Western
Furonp The belief in such races has
been persistent and wide.
Il The tail is considered a distinction of
the highest degree, even a mark OF
Il divine descent. in some of the ancient
records to which the doctor has re-
ferred. The Ranas of Roorbunder, rul-
ers Of one of the Rajpoot tribes of In
dia traces their descent, he says, from
4 their monkey god Hannah, and con-
4 firm that by the caudal appendages of
n their princes, known as 1.-The long
tailed Ranas of Saurashtra." Such an
II appendage has, on the other hand, he
81 relates, been looked upon as curse or
81 stigma of degeneration by some
III races He finds record of a certain
81 community of tailed men in Turke-
81 stan They were held in contempt by
other peoples and were therefore con-
demned to constant inter- breeding.
They were referred to as the "Kuju
al ruky Tartar" The tail was cursed
by these people because it hindered the
Il possessor from sitting properly upon
VI his horse.
Tailed races of human beings are
Il supposed to have resided in nearly
a every country, according to Drs. G. M.
n Gould and w. L. Pyle, two well-known
n pathOlogists, in a new work which has
a just left the press. The persistence of
q homo caudatus," even in present
81 times, has given rise to discussion be-
tween friends and opponents of the
\ Rarwinian theory. BY the former this
queer species is considered a reversion
TO a monkey ancestor.
The great Darwin speaks of a per-
son belonging to this strange species.
Virchow the great pathologist of Ber-
lin. once studied a boy of eight weeks
from whom was amputated a caudal
appendage three inches long. DR.. Oil
Yer Wendell Holmes, in the Atlantic
Monthly of June, 1890, states that he
saw in London the photograph of boy
similarly afflicted. The chief physician
OF the Greek army reports a recruit of
% who had such an adornment con-
tanning three vertebrae and mentions
other recruits with the same deformi-
ties. certain DIR. Miller studied
West Point cadet belonging to the same
category. and reports that exercise at
the riding school always gave him
great distress" A negro child born
near Louisville, KY, was reported
when eight weeks old to have had
pedunculated tair' two and a half
inches long and similar in shape to that
of pig.
That all Cornishmen have tails was
at one time generally believed Certain
men Of Kent, England, We're said to be
similarly decorated, and the cause was
believed to be retribution for their in
Suils 10 Thomas a Beckett.
Wlld man caught and tied for ex-
eeuuon in Fomosa had a tail more
tlldh a yard long, and this member
was exactly like that of a red COW, ac-
Cofdlng to one Struys, Dutch travel
eL Who wrote of his observations in
'ne seventeenth century.
me Nam Mans, a central African
race are reported to have tails from
I'VE 10 ten inches long. Hubsch, an in
.esuSator Of Constantipople, contends
~, ,iq. Doth men and women of this
'I!pe are so afflicted.
IN Hloernia there were many people
"llh long tails, but they could not be
aptIoaehed sufficiently for close study,
CyorIlng to Berengarius Carpensis in
OIe OF his commentaries.
mere is the additional testimony Of
= MINISTER of the gospel. The Rev.
q, ,s Brown, Wesleyan missionary,
~, ~ 1910 reported the breeding of a tailed
~, ol human beings on the island of
~, OH the coast of New Britain.
iailesS children of these people were
- just after birth to deliver them
4 Am exposure to public ridicule. To be
i s95s was considered by the HAM ISL
.lers to be cursed.
nueie really are tailed men of Bor-