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bony outgrowths are believed by many surgeons to be 

 hereditary. 



In his concluding remarks Macalister says, " That 

 outgrowths here may be really race characters is not to 

 be entirely ridiculed, for the neighbouring malar bone 

 which here, according to O'Reilly's description, partici- 

 pates in the swelling, certainly shows certain race pecu- 

 liarities, such as the bigger Tiiberositas malaris of the 



FIG. 106. A so-called Horned Man of Africa. (After Lamprey.) 



Mongolians, and the Processus marginalis, whose race 

 peculiarities have been pointed out by Werfer." 



Some further particulars relative to horned men have 

 been furnished by J. J. Lamprey, 1 of the Army Medical 

 Staff, who has had opportunities of examining carefully 

 three persons from different localities in Western Africa, 

 having peculiarities similar to Macalister's case. In each 



1 British Medical Journal^ 1888. 



