use where the infant is
born will be ruined;

(57) that has the beard come out, there will be abundant rains;

(58) that has some birta on the head, the country will be strengthened
(reinforced);

(59) that has on the head the mouth of an old man and that foams
(slabbers), there will be great prosperity in the land, the god Bin
will give a magnificent harvest (inundate the land with fertility), and
abundance shall be in the land;

(60) that has on one side of the head a thickened ear, the first-born
of the men shall live a long time (?);

(61) that has on the head two long and thick ears, there will be
tranquility and the pacification of litigation (contests);

(62) that has the figure in horn (like a horn?)..."

As ancient and as obscure as are these records, Ballantyne has
carefully gone over each, and gives the following lucid explanatory
comments:--

"What 'ears like a lion' (No. 1) may have been it is difficult to
determine; but doubtless the direction and shape of the auricles were
so altered as to give them an animal appearance, and possibly the
deformity was that called 'orechio ad ansa' by Lombroso. The absence of
one or both ears (Nos. 2 and 3) has been noted in recent times by
Virchow (Archiv fur path. Anat. xxx., p. 221), Gradenigo (Taruffi's
'Storia della Teratologia,' vi., p. 552), and others. Generally some
cartilaginous remnant is found, but on this point the Chaldean record
is silent. Variations in the size of the ears (Nos. 4 and 5) are well
known at the present time, and have been discussed at length by Binder
(Archiv fur Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten, xx., 1887) and others.
The exact malformation indicated in Nos. 6 and 7 is, of course, not to
be determined, although further researches in Assyriology may clear up
this point. The 'round ear' (No. 8) is one of Binder's types, and that
with a 'wound below' (No. 9) probably refers to a case of fistula auris
congenita (Toynbee, 'Diseases of the Ear,' 1860). The instance of an
infant born with two ears on the right side (No. 10) was doubtless one
of cervical auricle or preauricular appendage, whilst closure of the
external auditory meatus (No. 11) is a well-known deformity.

"The next thirteen cases (Nos. 12-24) were instances of anomalies of
the mouth and nose. The 'bird's beak' (No. 12) may have been a markedly
aquiline nose; No. 13 was a case of astoma; and Nos. 14 and 15 were
instances of stenosis or atresia of the anterior nares. Fetu