n length,
removed from an old woman by the celebrated Souberbielle. Figure 75 is
from a wax model supposed to have been taken from life, showing an
enormous grayish-black horn proceeding from the forehead. Warren
mentions a case under the care of Dubois, in a woman from whose
forehead grew a horn six inches in diameter and six inches in height.
It was hard at the summit and had a fetid odor. In 1696 there was an
old woman in France who constantly shed long horns from her forehead,
one of which was presented to the King. Bartholinus mentions a horn 12
inches long. Voigte cites the case of an old woman who had a horn
branching into three portions, coming from her forehead. Sands speaks
of a woman who had a horn 6 3/4 inches long, growing from her head.
There is an account of the extirpation of a horn nearly ten inches in
length from the forehead of a woman of eighty-two. Bejau describes a
woman of forty from whom he excised an excrescence resembling a ram's
horn, growing from the left parietal region. It curved forward and
nearly reached the corresponding tuberosity. It was eight cm. long,
two cm. broad at the base, and 1 1/2 cm. at the apex, and was quite
mobile. It began to grow at the age of eleven and had constantly
increased. Vidal presented before the Academie de Medecine in 1886 a
twisted horn from the head of a woman. This excrescence was ten inches
long, and at the time of presentation reproduction of it was taking
place in the woman. Figure 76 shows a case of ichthyosis cornea
pictured in the Lancet, 1850.

There was a woman of seventy-five, living near York, who had a horny
growth from the face which she broke off and which began to reproduce,
the illustration representing the growth during twelve months. Lall
mentions a horn from the cheek; Gregory reports one that measured 7 1/2
inches long that was removed from the temple of a woman in Edinburgh;
Chariere of Barnstaple saw a horn that measured seven inches growing
from the nape of a woman's neck; Kameya Iwa speaks of a dermal horn of
the auricle; Saxton of New York has excised several horns from the
tympanic membrane of the ear; Noyes speaks of one from the eyelid;
Bigelow mentions one from the chin; Minot speaks of a horn from the
lower lip, and Doran of one from the neck.

Gould cites the instance of a horn growing from an epitheliomatous
penis. The patient was fifty-two years of age and the victim of
congenital phimosis. He was circumcised four years p