Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle ; with 295 illustrations in the text, and 12 half-tone and colored plates.

  • Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.
Date:
1898, ©1896
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Credit: Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle ; with 295 illustrations in the text, and 12 half-tone and colored plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PAGES tares, 701—Recoveries from high falls, 703—High dives, 704—Resistance of children to injuries. 705—Instances of infant-vitality, 706—Operations on the extreme young and old, 706—Repeated operations, 707—Billroth's marvelous operation, 708—Self-performed surgical operations, 708—Instances of extensive loss of blood, witfi recovery, 709—Extensive venesection, 709—Spontaneous hemorrhages, 709—Arrow-wounds, 710—Arrow-poison, 711—Multiple arrow- womids, 711—Serious insect-stings, 713—Syphilis from a flea-bite, 714—Snake- bites, 715—Hydrophobia, 719—Shark-bites, 721—Leprosy from a fish-bite, 721— Alligator-bites, 722—Animal-bites, 722—Injuries from lightning-stroke, 722— Recovery from lightning-stroke, 723—Therapeutic effect of lightning-stroke, 726— Grafting, 728—Tooth-replantation, 728—Muscle-transplantation, 729—Tendon- transplantation, 729—Nerve-grafting, 729—Bone-grafting, 729—Skin-grafting,729 —Self-mutilations, 731—Self-castration, 732—Miscellaneous mutilations, 735— Needle-girls,''etc., 735—Wanderings of pins and needles in the body, 736—Prick of a pin causing death, 737—Manufacture of crippled beggars, 737—Chinese foot- binding, 737—Professional leg-breaker, 741—Anomalous suicides, 742—Religious and ceremonial mutilations, 743—Self-bleeding, 745—Exhibition of scars, 745— Cosmetic mutilations, 746—Manufacture of dimples, 746—Amputation of the fingers, 746—Knocking out the front teeth, 747—Depilatory customs, 747—Bor- ing the ear, 749—Tattooing, 749—Infection from tattooing, 751—Infibulation, 752—Chastity-girdles, 753—Infibulation to prevent masturbation, 754—Slitting the urethra, 754—Mutilations of the genital organs to prevent conception, 754— Circumcision, 754—Ceremonial ovariotomy, 755—Castration, 755—Eunuch- makers, 756—Castration because of excessive cupidity, 756—Castration as a re- ligious rite, 756—The Skoptzies, 757. CHAPTER XV. ANOMALOUS TYPES AND INSTANCES OF DISEASE 759-822 Tumors, 759—Adenoma of the breast, 759—Diffuse hypertrophy of the breast, 759—Goiter, 761—Extirpation of the thyroid gland, 762—Fibromata, 762—Multiple fibromata of the skin, 762—Keloids, 764—Lipomata, 764—Chon- dromata, 766—Benign bone-tumors, 768—Exostoses, 768—Gros-nez, 769—Neu- romata, 770—Carcinomata, 772—Sarcomata, 772—Osteosarcoma, 772—Varicose veins, 778—Aneurysmal varix, 778—Aneurysm, 779—Large uterine tumors, 780—Ovarian cysts, 782—Enormous dropsies, 786—Ankylosis of the articula- tions, 787— Ossified man, 787—Petrefaction, 788—Calculi, 788—Large vesical calculi, 788—Vesical calculi in very young children, 790—Multiple vesical cal- culi, 790—Renal calculi, 790—Other extravesical calculi, 791—Retention and suppression of urine, 792—Persistent constipation, 794—Elephantiasis arabum, 795—Elephantiasis of the lower extremities, 795—Elephantiasis of the upper extremities, 798—Elephantiasis of the face and scalp, 798—Elephantiasis of the breast, 800—Elephantiasis of the scrotum, 800—Statistics of operations on ele- phantoid scroti, 803—Acromegaly, 803—Chiromegaly, 805—Megalocephaly, 805 —Cretinism, S()5—Sporadic cretinism, 806—Myxedema, 807—Cagots, 808—Per- sistent hiccough, 811—Anomalous sneezing, 813— Ear sneezing, 815—Hemo- philia. S15—Hemophilic purpura of the retina, 816—Hemorrhagic diseases of the new-born, 816—Syphilis hemorrhagica neonatorum, 816—Winckel's disease, 816—Barlow's disease, 817—Tetanus neonatorum, 817—Human parasites, 818— Tapeworms, 818—Asearides, 819—Trichinosis, 820—Ecchinococcus, 820—Fila- ria sanguinis hominis, 820— Eaten of worms, 821—Bot-fly, 821—Peenash, 822.