[...]... the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, the Library of the British Museum, the Library of the British Medical Association, the Bibliotheque de Faculte de Medecine de Paris, the Bibliotheque Nationale, and the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, GEORGE M GOULD October, 1896 WALTER L PYLE TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I GENETIC ANOMALIES II PRENATAL ANOMALIES. .. OBSTETRIC ANOMALIES IV PROLIFICITY V MAJOR TERATA PAGES 17-49 50-112 113143 144160 161212 VI MINOR TERATA 213323 VII ANOMALIES OF STATURE, SIZE, AND DEVELOPMENT 324364 VIII LONGEVITY 365382 IX PHYSIOLOGIC AND FUNCTIONAL ANOMALIES X SURGICAL ANOMALIES OF THE HEAD AND NECK XI SURGICAL ANOMALIES OF 383526 527587 588605 THESURGICAL XII EXTREMITIES ANOMALIES OF THE THORAX AND ABDOMEN XIII SURGICAL ANOMALIES OF. .. idiosyncrasies and tolerance at his immediate command A widow with a child of ten months' gestation may be saved the loss of reputation by mention of the authentic cases in which pregnancy has exceeded nine months' duration; the proof of the viability of a seven months' child may alter the disposition of an estate; the proof of death by a blow on the epigastrium without external marks of violence may... remembered that limits of space have forbidden satisfactory discussion of the cases, and the prime object of the whole work has been to carefully collect and group the anomalies and curiosities, and allow the reader to form his own conclusions and make his own deductions As the entire labor in the preparation of the forelying volume, from the inception of the idea to the completion of the index, has been... SYSTEM XIV MISCELLANEOUS SURGICAL ANOMALIES XV ANOMALOUS TYPES AND INSTANCES OF DISEASE 606666 667696 697758 759822 XVI ANOMALOUS SKIN-DISEASES XVII ANOMALOUS NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES XVIII HISTORIC EPIDEMICS 823851 852890 891914 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... names of the authors of the most important reports A table of contents follows this preface We assume the responsibility for innovations in orthography, certain abbreviations, and the occasional substitution of figures for large numerals, fractions, and decimals, made necessary by limited space, and in some cases to more lucidly show tables and statistics From the variety of the reports, uniformity of. .. the womb with his knife If large portions of an organ,—the lung, a kidney, parts of the liver, or the brain itself,—may be lost by accident, and the patient still live, the physician is taught the lesson of nil desperandum, and that if possible to arrest disease of these organs before their total destruction, the prognosis and treatment thereby acquire new and more hopeful phases Directly or indirectly... approach the tent of the official in charge Empiricism had doubtless taught the ancient husbands the dangers of sexual intercourse during this period, and the after-results of many such connections were looked upon as manifestations of the contagiousness of the evil excretions issuing at this period Hence at one time menstruation was held in much awe and abhorrence On the other hand, in some of the eastern... advanced by his clients; and it is only by an exhaustive knowledge of extremes and anomalies that an authority on medical jurisprudence can hope to substantiate his testimony beyond question In every poisoning case he is closely questioned as to the largest dose of the drug in question that has been taken with impunity, and the smallest dose that has killed, and he is expected to have the cases of reported... "unique" case, or one noteworthy chiefly by reason of its anomalous features A curious case is invariably reported, and the insertion of such a report is generally productive of correspondence and discussion with the object of finding a parallel for it In view of all this it seems itself a curious fact that there has never been any systematic gathering of medical curiosities It would have been most natural .