overed to a greater or less degree with
hair. Villerme saw a child of six at Poitiers in 1808 whose body,
except the feet and hands, was covered with a great number of prominent
brown spots of different dimensions, beset with hair shorter and not so
strong as that of a boar, but bearing a certain resemblance to the
bristles of that animal. These spots occupied about one-fifth of the
surface of this child's skin. Campaignac in the early part of this
century exhibited a case in which there was a large tuft of long black
hair growing from the shoulder. Dufour has detailed a case of a young
man of twenty whose sacral region contained a tuft of hair as long and
black, thick and pliant, as that of the head, and, particularly
remarkable in this case, the skin from which it grew was as fine and
white as the integument of the rest of the body. There was a woman
exhibited recently, under the advertisement of "the lady with a mane,"
who had growing from the center of her back between the shoulders a
veritable mane of long, black hair, which doubtless proceeded from a
form of naevus.

Duyse reports a case of extensive hypertrichosis of the back in a girl
aged nine years; her teeth were normal; there was pigmentation of the
back and numerous pigmentary nevi on the face. Below each scapula there
were tumors of the nature of fibroma molluscum. In addition to hairy
nevi on the other parts of the body there was localized ichthyosis.

Ziemssen figures an interesting case of naevus pilosus resembling
"bathing tights". There were also present several benign tumors
(fibroma molluscum) and numerous smaller nevi over the body. Schulz
first observed the patient in 1878. This individual's name was Blake,
and he stated that he was born with a large naevus spreading over the
upper parts of the thighs and lower parts of the trunk, like
bathing-tights, and resembling the pelt of an animal. The same was true
of the small hairy parts and the larger and smaller tumors.
Subsequently the altered portions of the skin had gradually become
somewhat larger. The skin of the large hairy naevus, as well as that of
the smaller ones, was stated by Schulz to have been in the main
thickened, in part uneven, verrucose, from very light to intensely dark
brown in color; the consistency of the larger mammiform and smaller
tumors soft, doughy, and elastic. The case was really one of large
congenital naevus pilosus and fibroma molluscum combined.

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