The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-08
HORNED MEN AND WOMEN.
They Actually Exist in Modern Life
rs Well as in Ancient Fables.

From the London Express.
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 Afri-
ca, each having a horn on either side
of his nose.
while serving on the Gold Coast"
said he, 81 had opportunities of MAX
ing drawings of these people. The
first horned man I had an opportunity
of observing was a Fantee named CO.
fea, aged about % years, from the lit
tie village of Amaquanta, in Wasau
territory.
THE second horned man was a
long-faced youth aged is, named
Quassie Jabin, from the Gamin ter
ritory, and not kinsman of the first
one.
From a statement made by him
through a Fantee interpreter l gather
ed that this hornlike growth had been
in existence as long as he could re-
member.
The third case was that OF Cudjo
Danso aged about 20. 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 pa
biologists.
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. Mich
ael Angelo in his famous sculpture
of Moses. has given the patriarch a
pair of horns"
There is greater frequency of horns
among women than among men, ac-
cOrding to these authorities.
The combination of horns and tail on
a human being would naturally give
rise to eXtravagant superstition.
There is a description of such a 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.
He was a boy five weeks old when
described. He had hair two inches
were fiendish, 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
clawlke hands. He snapped like a
dog, crawled on all tours, and refused
the natural sustenance of a normal
child. The country people considered
this devil-child a punishment for a re-
buff that the mother gave to a Jewish
peddler selling crucifixion pictures.
Fabricus, the famous Italian anato-
mist of the fourteenth century, records
that he saw man with horns on his
head, and who chewed the cud.
Human rumination, or cud chewing,
has been recognized as a fact by medi-
cal men for years, according to Drs.
Gould and PYLE.
A Swede of IS, living in Germany,
and apparently healthy, was observed,
they say, by a DR.. WHITTIER to retire
after meals to some remote place where
he might enjoy this bovine habit.
DR.. Chatard some years ago reported
that he had seen in Baltimore an old
woman with a horn on her nose. 1t
was more than an inch long, and
nearly shaped like that of the rhinoce-
ros."
DR.. Saxton reports that he has cut
several horns from the ears of patients.
There are further reports of such pro-
tuberances found on the eyelid, the
nape of the neck, the lower lip, and the
chin.