IX. 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. 



\Read Nov. 6. 1792.] 



THIS 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 fliort 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, cefophagus 

 and ftomach, with all the fmall inteftines, except the end of 

 the ilium ; the anus ; the liver, fpleen, pancreas and omenta ', 

 the renal glands j terminations of the ureters ; the middle part 

 of the urethra ; the right tefticle ; both arms ; both patella* 3 

 with feveral of the bones of the feet and toes. 



A round opening (fee fig. 1. and 2.) which led to a thimble- 

 like cavity, fhut at its bottom, had fome diftant refemblance to 

 the mouth. 



The 



