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

  • Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817.
Date:
[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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    The foft parts of the trunk were fupported by fixteen ver- tebrae, fix ribs, an os facrum, and two offa innominata. The / legs had each an os femoris, tibia and fibula, with an imperfedl number of the bones of the feet. See fig. 2. X. and fig. 4. 1. &c. to 16. 17, The umbilical cord was connected at nearly the ufual height above the ofla pubis. See fig. 1. E. The penis, covered with a large preputium, had the ufual fi- tuation and ftruCiure. See fig. 1. F. The lower part of the trunk contained an inteftinal tube, (hut at its beginning, and compofed of an upper part, four inches long, refembling the end of the ilium 3 for it terminated in the fide of an inteftine, refembling the caput coli, with its^ appendix vermiformis. From this place, to its lower end, the great inteftine me afar ed thirteen inches ; and the end of the rectum, which was much contracfted, terminated in the back part of the bladder of urine, above its fphindter. The redtum contained vifcid femipellucid mucus, but no black fluff, like the meconium. See fig. 2. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. and fig. 3. O. P. In the mefentery and mefocolon, there were about a dozen conglobated lymphatic glands, of the ufual fhape, colour and confiftence. See fig. 2. From which it appeared, that the in- teftines were provided with ladteal veffels ; and we therefore cannot doubt, that the other parts of the body were furnifhed with lymphatic veffels, or that there was an abforbent, as well as circulating fyftem in this monfter. At the upper part of the trunk, covered by the ribs, there were two kidneys of a large fize, with a pelvis and ureter to each. The right ureter was dilated to the fize of a goofe’s q,ui 11. The left one was fmall. Both were fhut at their under ends, and had no communication with a fmall fac, which, in fituation and ftrudture, refembled the bladder of urine, and had