Description of a human male monster : illustrated by tables, with remarks.

  • Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817.
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[1792]
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Credit: Description of a human male monster : illustrated by tables, with remarks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Description of a Human Male Monster, illujlrated by ‘Tables, with Remarks. By Alexander Monro, M. D. F. R. S. Ed in. Fellow of the Royal College of Phyficians, Profeffor of Medicine, Anatomy and Surgery in the Univerfity of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Surgery in Paris, &c. &c. HIS monfter, of which the mother was delivered by Mr Thomas Anderson, furgeon in Leith, after the birth of a complete child at the full time, had its proper membranes and a placenta, with a fhort umbilical cord. The following parts were wanting in it; to wit, the bones of the head ; the brain, with the organs of fight, hearing, fmell and tafte ; the neck; about one half of the ribs ; the larynx, trachea and lungs ; the heart; the pharynx, oefophagus and ftomach, with all the fmall inteftines, except the end of the ilium ; the anus ; the liver, fpleen, pancreas and omenta ; the renal glands ; terminations of the ureters ; the middle part of the urethra ; the right tefticle ; both arms ; both patella:; with feveral of the bones of the feet and toes. A round opening (fee fig. I. and 2.) which led to a thimble- like cavity, fhut at its bottom, had fome diftant refemblance to the mouth. [Read Nov. 6. 1792.] The