e and possessed
great elasticity in the skin of his whole body; even his nose could be
stretched. Figure 70 represents a photograph of an exhibitionist named
Felix Wehrle, who besides having the power to stretch his skin could
readily bend his fingers backward and forward. The photograph was taken
in January, 1888.

In these congenital cases there is loose attachment of the skin without
hypertrophy, to which the term dermatolysis is restricted by Crocker.
Job van Meekren, the celebrated Dutch physician of the seventeenth
century, states that in 1657 a Spaniard, Georgius Albes, is reported to
have been able to draw the skin of the left pectoral region to the left
ear, or the skin under the face over the chin to the vertex. The skin
over the knee could be extended half a yard, and when it retracted to
its normal position it was not in folds. Seiffert examined a case of
this nature in a young man of nineteen, and, contrary to Kopp's
supposition, found that in some skin from over the left second rib the
elastic fibers were quite normal, but there was transformation of the
connective tissue of the dermis into an unformed tissue like a myxoma,
with total disappearance of the connective-tissue bundles. Laxity of
the skin after distention is often seen in multipara, both in the
breasts and in the abdominal walls, and also from obesity, but in all
such cases the skin falls in folds, and does not have a normal
appearance like that of the true "elastic-skin man."

Occasionally abnormal development of the scalp is noticed. McDowall of
twenty-two. On each side of the median line of the head there were five
deep furrows, more curved and shorter as the distance from the median
line increased. In the illustration the hair in the furrows is left
longer than that on the rest of the head. The patient was distinctly
microcephalic and the right side of the body was markedly wasted. The
folds were due to hypertrophy of the muscles and scalp, and the same
sort of furrowing is noticed when a dog "pricks his ears." This case
may possibly be considered as an example of reversion to inferior
types. Cowan records two cases of the foregoing nature in idiots. The
first case was a paralytic idiot of thirty-nine, whose cranial
development was small in proportion to the size of the face and body;
the cranium was oxycephalic; the scalp was lax and redundant and the
hair thin; there were 13 furrows, five on each side running
anteroposteriorly, and th