Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-08
HUMAN BEINGS WITH TAILS
Grotesque Species is Known as
Homo Caudatus.
Tailed Races of Huma n Beings Are Sup
posed to Have Resided in Nearly
Every Country High Distinc-
ton in India - Queer Tales
of Tails.

| There actually dwells on earth TODAY a
tailed species of human beings, according
to DR.. r. Granville Harrison, associate
professor of anatomy, Johns Hopkins Uni
Nersity Such a surprising announcement
from the faculty of this dgniiied and pro-
found institution of learning Is calculated
TO create Il sensation.
Homo caudatus' is what DR. Harrison
calls this grOtesque species He says that
real live specimen was lately exhibited
before the Johns Hopkins Hospital Medi-
cal society. 1t was a sixmonths- old boy
born with the surerfluous appendage
which, according to the doctor, gave an
impression not unlike that of pigs tail
a similarity noted in n number of cases"
Inc appendage was A centimeters long
when the child was two weeks old, but by
the end of six months, when amputated
/ mad heightened to five centimeters.
1T seemed advisable to remove it," add
cd the doctor not only to acCede to tho
wishes OF the childs parents, who regard
ed its presence with chagrin. but also on
more practical grounds. Its rate of
growth was considerable. and ii did not
seem unlikely that the appendage might
nave later attained Undue proportions,
causing, as has been reported in several
instances. considerable Inconvenience In
sitting" DR. Harrison has preserved the
amputatod member in fluid
FROM the United States five such cases
have been reported to the doctor $ knowl-
edge. Prior to 1854 one hundred and six
teen authorities had recorded observations
of tailed men. Since then twenty-five adj
ditional cases have come to light. The
&C. cics appears to be widely distributed.
as far back as the writings of Pliny and
PtuSunias, DR.. Harrison finds reference
to tailed men. Seve nteen years ago Ger
man scientist published n map showing
the various lands supposed to have been,
at che time or other, the haunts of human
races with tails. These regions include
not only widely distant portions of South
America, Asia and Africa, but the greater
rart of western Europe. The belief in
such races has been persistent and wilo.
The tail Is &C nsidered a distinction Of the
highest degree, even marx If divine de-
scent, in some of the ancient records to
which the doctor has referred. The Ranas
Of Ro)rbunder. rulers Of one of the Raj
pott tribes Of India, trace their descent,
he says. from their monkey god Hannah
and confirm this by the caudal appondagcs
of their princes. know1 rs "tho long-tailcd
RanaS of Saurashtra." Such an appen-
daec has, on the other hand. he relates
fe,n looked upon aS a curse or stigma
Of degradation by some races. He hnds
record of a certain community OF tailed
men IN Turkestan. They were held in con-
tempt by other peoples and worn the rofOre
condemned to constant intor-bre.1irC
They We're referred to as the "Kdiu Rukly
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