ture would be advisable for
diagnosis.

By extraordinary muscular power and extreme laxity of his ligaments, he
simulated all the dislocations about the hip joint. Sometimes he
produced actual dislocation, but usually he said he could so distort
his muscles as to imitate in the closest degree the dislocations. He
could imitate the various forms of talipes, in such a way as to deceive
an expert. He dislocated nearly every joint in the body with great
facility. It was said that he could contract at will both pillars of
the fauces. He could contract his chest to 34 inches and expand it to
41 inches.

Warren weighed 150 pounds, was a total abstainer, and was the father of
two children, both of whom could readily dislocate their hips.

In France in 1886 there was shown a man who was called "l'homme
protee," or protean man. He had an exceptional power over his muscles.
Even those muscles ordinarily involuntary he could exercise at will. He
could produce such rigidity of stature that a blow by a hammer on his
body fell as though on a block of stone. By his power over his
abdominal muscles he could give himself different shapes, from the
portly alderman to the lean and haggard student, and he was even
accredited with assuming the shape of a "living skeleton." Quatrefages,
the celebrated French scientist, examined him, and said that he could
shut off the blood from the right side and then from the left side of
the body, which feat he ascribed to unilateral muscular action.

In 1893 there appeared in Washington, giving exhibitions at the
colleges there and at the Emergency Hospital, a man named Fitzgerald,
claiming to reside in Harrisburg, Pa., who made his living by
exhibiting at medical colleges over the country. He simulated all the
dislocations, claiming that they were complete, using manual force to
produce and reduce them. He exhibited a thorough knowledge of the
pathology of dislocations and of the anatomy of the articulations. He
produced the different forms of talipes, as well as all the major
hip-dislocations. When interrogated as to the cause of his enormous
saphenous veins, which stood out like huge twisted cords under the skin
and were associated with venous varicosity on the leg, he said he
presumed they were caused by his constantly compressing the saphenous
vein at the hip in giving his exhibitions, which in some large cities
were repeated several times a day.

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