Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-05-05
HORNED MEN AND WOMEN.
They Actually Exist in Modern Life
as Well as in Ancient Fables.


They Actually Exist in Modern Life
as Well as in Ancient Fables.
Men and women endowed with horns
are not by any means unknown in the
world we live in to-day.
A short time ago Surgeon Lamprey
of the army medical staff met with
and studied three horned men in AZ
RIGA. each having horn on either side
of his nose.
while serving on the Gold Coast"
said he. II had opportunities of max
ing awnings of these people The first
horned man l had an opportunity OF
observing was Fantee named Cofea.
aged about 81 years. from the little
village Of Amaquanta, in Wasau terri
tory.
1.-The second horned man was long
faced youth. aged about Is. named
Quassie Jabin. from the Gamin terri
tory, and not kinsman of the first
one.
From statement made by him
through Fantee interpreter. gath
cred that this hornlike growth had
been in existence as long as he could
remember
1.-THE third case was that of Guido
DansO, aged about 90 He stated.
through an interpreter, that so far as
he was aware this hornlike knob had
grown of itself. 1t certainly had
grown larger as he had grown older.
1t gave him no Inconvenience. He
could see and smell perfectly"
Hundreds of cases more remarkable
have recently been collected in an in
teresting report by Drs. George Gould
and Walter Pyle. both well-known
pathologists.
Human horns" say they. "are far
more frequent than ordinarily sup
posed. Nearly all the older writers
cite examples. Many mention horns
on the head.
I'm the ancient times horns were
symbolical of wisdom and power.
Michael Angelo, in his famous sculp-
ture of Moses, has given the patriarch
a pair of horns"
There is greater frequency of horns
among women than among men. &C.
cOrding to these authorities.
The combination of horns and tail on
a human being would naturally give
rise to eXtravagant superstition.
There is description of such case
in a recent medical report. The crea-
ture, said to have been dubbed the
"Hoodoo of Plato" was born eight
years ago in Minnesota.
lie was boy weeks old when de-
scribed. He had hair two inches long
all over the body; his features were
tiendish and his eyes shone like beads
beneath his shaggy brows. He had a
tail eighteen inches long, horns from
the skull full set of teeth and claw
like hands He snapped like dog,
crawled on all fours and refused the
natural sustenance of a normal child.
The country people considered this
devil-child a punishment for a rebuff
that the mother gave to a Jewish ped
dler selling crucitiXion pictures.
Fabricius. the famous Italian anato-
mist of the fourteenth century, records
that he saw a man with horns Oh his
head and who chewed the cud.
Human Illumination. or cud chewing,
has been recognized as fact by med
ical men for years. according to Drs.
Gould and Pyle.
A Swede of 80. living In Germany
and apparently healthy, was observed.
they say. by DR.. Whittier to retire
after meals to some remote place
where he might enjoy his bovine habit.
DR.. Chatard some years ago. says
the London Express reported that he
had seen in Baltimore an old woman
with Il horn on her nose. 1t was more
than an inch long and nearly shaped
like that of the rhnoceros."
DR.. SaXton reports that he has cut
several horns from the ears of pa
tents. There are further reports of
such protuberances found on the eye
lid, the nape of the neck the lower lip
and the chin.