Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-13
HUMAN SKELETON WITH HORNS.
Discovery In Oregon Excites Interest
''-------~- Amod{x Scientists.

The recent finding in Oregon Of human
skeleton with h0k1fs attached to the skull
has caused much interest among ANTAGONISTS
generally said scientist Of the Smith.
sonian Institute to Star man the other
day. However. 1t is a fact well known to
anatomists that horny excrescences upon the
face and body ofchHman subjects are by no
means rare, and were also known to the
ancients.
THAT woodland diety, the Satyr. depicted
with goat-hks ears. budding horns and a
short TAIL did not grow altogether from the
imagination OF the ancientS either as to
horns or tail.
In the oldhnIHnnes horns were symbolic
Of power and wisdom Michael Angelo in
his great sculpture of Moses has given that
patriarch a pair Of horns.
Among collected examples OF human
grown horns in a medical museum In Lon
don there Is one eleven inches long and two
and half inches in circumference. One
modern investigator reports seventy-one
cases of horns thirty-seven in females and
thirty-one in males and three in infants. or
this number fifteen were on the head. eight
on the face. eighteen on the lower extremi-
ties and eleven on the trunk.
Another collector gathered reports OF
ninety cases Fourty-four women and tnr-
ty-nfne men. the remainder infants. Of
these forty-eight were on the head. A third
collector reported 100 cases OF cutaneous
horns. The greater frequency of the
growths is with women. Old age Is often
a predisposing cause.
The most remarkable case Of horn was
that OF Paul Rodriguez, a Mexican porter,
who from the side of his head had horn
fourteen inches in circumference at the
base, divided into three shafts case Is
mentioned of horn that grew upon a wo-
mans forehead six inches in diameter and
six inches long
I'm 1896 there was an old woman IN
France who constantly shed long horns
from her head. one of which was presenteu
to the king. Vidal. the eminent French
physician, in 1885 presented before the
Academy of Medicine a twisted horn ten
inches long take from the head OF a Wo-
man.
Small horns growing from the tympanic
membrane of the ear are not rare Dr.
Saxton Of New York reported of having
excised several of them. The late Dr.
Pancoast of Philadelphia reported the case
of sea captain. seventy-eight years OLD.
who had been exposed to the WINDS all MS
life His nose, cheeks. forehead ana llps
were covered with horny grOwths. which
were constantly being shed and again re-
produced
"A number Of authorities speak of horns
growing upon the legs. Among these was
one over fourteen inches long. Ihis was
taken from the middle of the leg of wo-
man eighty years old. six inches below the
knee.
The old women of the time of James l.
King of England. who CHANGED to have
these eXcreScenceS could hardiy nope 10
escape burning witches.
'Stories of cutaneous horns when seen
and reported by the laity seldom lack ex-
aggeration in description One of these IS
story published in papers in New South
Wales which describes a child five weeks
old, born with a tail eighteen inches long.
horns upon its forehead and full set of
teeth.
THE account adds, that the country peo-
pie around Bomballa considered this child
a punishment for rebuff that the mother
gave to peddler selling pictures of the
cruci1xion. vexed by his persistence she
said she would sooner have devil in her
house than his picture.