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.

  • Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.
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1901, ©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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lesbian love, 308 Lesser on albinism, 220 Lethargy, protracted, 867 Lettsom on polyphagia, 638 Levator aui, spasmodic contraction of, in coitus, 512 Levison on fetal dentition, 243 Lew in on idiosyncrasy to drugs, 497 ; on quinin, 509 ; on opium-eating, 507 Lewin and Heller on horns, 226 Lewis on unilateral sweating, 388 Lheritier on vicarious menstruation, 17 Licetus on iscliiopagus, 181 ; on double monster, 167 Lidell on basal fracture, 559 Liebreich on vicarious menstruation, 24 Lieutaud on absence of the liver and spleen, 290 Life, divisions of, 370 Lightning-stroke, 722 ; amputation by, 726 ; blindness from, 537 ; effect on the nervous system, 725 ; ocular injuries from, 726 ; photographic properties of, 727 ; recovery after, 723 ; therapeusis of, 726 Lile on tapeworm, 819 Lilliputians, 342 Limbless athletes, 599 Limbs, absence of, 263 ; artificial, 598; foreign bodies in, 599 ; supernumerary, 269 Linsmayer on acromegaly, 804 Lion-tamer, injury to a, 591 Lipomata, 764 ; diffuse, 766 Liprandi on the Skoptzies, 758 Lips, anomalies of, 254 Liquor amnii, absence of, 123 Lisfranc on foreign bodies in the uterus, 696 Lison on sixth dentition, 243 Lister on longevity, 379 Lithopedion, 50, 63, 64 Lithotomy during pregnancy, 104 ; self- performed, 708 I, it ten on hermaphroditism, 211 Little on self-decapitation, 575 Littre on Hippocrates. 90 Liver, anomalies of, 290 ; floating, 655 ; hy- datid disease of, 786 ; hypertrophy of, 655 ; laceration of, 141 ; ligature of, 654 ; regeneration of, 655 ; resection of, 654 ; supernumerary, 290 ; surgery of, 653, 654 ; suture of, 652 ; wounds of, 652 “ Living angel,” 844 “ Living skeletons,” 363 Lizard in the nose, 564 ; swallowed, 637 Lloyd on aural anomaly, 261 ; on laminec- tomy, 661 Loakes, Wybrand, 339 Lobstein on intussusception, 643 Locke on horns, 226 Lockier, Joseph, 416 Locomotive (toy) in the subglottic cavity, 614 Lodge on mercuric chlorid, 504 Logan on hemihypertrophy, 350 Loin on maternal impressions, 85 Lombard on pregnancy with unruptured hymen, 42 Lombroso on hirsuties, 231 ; on micro- cephaly, 247 Lomer on fetal measles, 91 London plague, 895 Longevity, 365 ; in active military service, 379 ; activity in, 371 ; in actors, 377 ; among the ancients, 369 ; in a deaf mute, 377 ; diet in, 379 ; in dwarfs, 339 ; effect of class-influence, occupation, etc., on, 367 ; generative ability compatible with, 376 ; among the Greeks, 370 ; heredity in, 379 ; in hermits and ecclesiastics, 370 ; among Indians, 376 ; influence of mental culture in, 371 ; influence of personal habits, 372 ; influence of stimulants, 377 ; in Ireland, 378 ; among the Jews, 369 ; in physicians, 380 ; possession of faculties in, 377 ; recent instances of, 382; re- markable instances of, 373 ; among the Romans, 370; in rulers, 372; statistics of, 365, 366, 367 Longhi on sloughing of the vagina, 691 Longmore on transfixion of the chest, 611 Longworth on inversion of the diaphragm, 286 Lopez on precocious boys, 345 Lordosis, 281 Loreta on abdominal aneurysm, 659 Loring on gunshot wound of the abdomen, 651 Lorry on canities, 238 Lospichlerus on retention of ectopic fetus, 63 Louis and Louise, 181 Louis on birth by the rectum, 121 Louise, L., 192 Louslikiu, 331 Lousier on polymazia, 302 Lovort on enucleation of the eye in preg- nancy, 105 Lowe on injury to the lens, 533 Lozes on horns, 224 ; on unconscious preg- nancy, 73 Luce on injury during pregnancy, 100 Ludwig on canities, 238 Lumbricoides, 819 ; in the uterus, 111 Lumby on twin birth, 143 Luudie on protracted pregnancy, 71 Lungs, anomalies of, 285 ; injuries of, 606 ; rupture of, without fracture of a rib, 608 ; spontaneous rupture of, 609 ; surgery of, 608 ; transfixion of, 610 “ Lurline,” 513 Lusk on delivery of ectopic fetus. 54; on tumor in the pregnant uterus, 106 Lust-murder, 410 Lycosthenes on monsters, 162-164 Lyford on hypertrophy of the tongue, 5C7 Lymphedema, 795 Lyssophobia, 879 M. Maas on painless births, 113 Macann on polyorchids, 320 Macaulay on tetanus neonatorum, 817 McCallum on double monster, 186 M’Clellan on fracture of the penis, 679