females, 39 males, the
sex not being mentioned in the remainder. Of these 48 were on the head,
four on the face, four on the nose, 11 on the thigh, three on the leg
and foot, six on the back, five on the glans penis, and nine on the
trunk. Lebert's collection numbered 109 cases of cutaneous horns. The
greater frequency among females is admitted by all authors. Old age is
a predisposing cause. Several patients over seventy have been seen and
one of ninety-seven.

Instances of cutaneous horns, when seen and reported by the laity, give
rise to most amusing exaggerations and descriptions. The following
account is given in New South Wales, obviously embellished with
apocryphal details by some facetious journalist: The child, five weeks
old, was born with hair two inches long all over the body; his features
were fiendish and his eyes shone like beads beneath his shaggy brows.
He had a tail 18 inches long, horns from the skull, a full set of
teeth, and claw-like hands; he snapped like a dog and crawled on all
fours, and refused the natural sustenance of a normal child. The mother
almost became an imbecile after the birth of the monster. The country
people about Bomballa considered this devil-child a punishment for a
rebuff that the mother gave to a Jewish peddler selling
Crucifixion-pictures. Vexed by his persistence, she said she would
sooner have a devil in her house than his picture.

Lamprey has made a minute examination of the much-spoken-of "Horned Men
of Africa." He found that this anomaly was caused by a congenital
malformation and remarkable development of the infraorbital ridge of
the maxillary bone. He described several cases, and through an
interpreter found that they were congenital, followed no history of
traumatism, caused little inconvenience, and were unassociated with
disturbance of the sense of smell. He also learned that the deformity
was quite rare in the Cape Coast region, and received no information
tending to prove the conjecture that the tribes in West Africa used
artificial means to produce the anomaly, although such custom is
prevalent among many aborigines.

Probably the most remarkable case of a horn was that of Paul Rodrigues,
a Mexican porter, who, from the upper and lateral part of his head, had
a horn 14 inches in circumference and divided into three shafts, which
he concealed by constantly wearing a peculiarly shaped red cap. There
is in Paris a wax model of a horn, eight or nine inches i