Faculte
de Medecine de Paris, the Bibliotheque Nationale, and the Library of
the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

GEORGE M. GOULD.
PHILADELPHIA, October, 1896. WALTER L. PYLE.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGES

I. GENETIC ANOMALIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-49

II. PRENATAL ANOMALIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50-112

III. OBSTETRIC ANOMALIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113-143

IV. PROLIFICITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144-160

V. MAJOR TERATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161-212

VI. MINOR TERATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213-323

VII. ANOMALIES OF STATURE, SIZE, AND DEVELOPMENT . . . 324-364

VIII. LONGEVITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365-382

IX. PHYSIOLOGIC AND FUNCTIONAL ANOMALIES . . . . . . . 383-526

X. SURGICAL ANOMALIES OF THE HEAD AND NECK . . . . . . 527-587

XI. SURGICAL ANOMALIES OF THE EXTREMITIES . . . . . . 588-605

XII. SURGICAL ANOMALIES OF THE THORAX AND ABDOMEN . . 606-666

XIII. SURGICAL ANOMALIES OF THE GENITOURINARY SYSTEM . 667-696

XIV. MISCELLANEOUS SURGICAL ANOMALIES . . . . . . . . 697-758

XV. ANOMALOUS TYPES AND INSTANCES OF DISEASE . . . . . 759-822

XVI. ANOMALOUS SKIN-DISEASES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823-851

XVII. ANOMALOUS NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES . . . . . 852-890

XVIII. HISTORIC EPIDEMICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891-914

ANOMALIES AND CURIOSITIES OF MEDICINE.

CHAPTER I.

GENETIC ANOMALIES.

Menstruation has always been of interest, not only to the student of
medicine, but to the lay-observer as well. In olden times there were
many opinions concerning its causation, all of which, until the era of
physiologic investigation, were of superstitious derivation. Believing
menstruation to be the natural means of exit of the feminine bodily
impurities, the ancients always thought a menstruating woman was to be
shunned; her very presence was deleterious to the whole animal economy,
as, for instance, among the older writers we find that Pliny remarks:
"On the approach of a woman in this state, must will become sour, seeds
which are touched by her become sterile, grass withers away, garden
plants are parched up, and the fruit will fall from the tree beneath
which she sits." He also says that the menstruating women in Cappadocia
were perambulated about the f