^8 Mr. Home’s Obfervations on 
Veral other parts of Europe ; and the horns themfelves have been 
depofited as valuable curiofities in the firft cohesions in Europe. 
In giving the hiftory of a difeafe fo rare in its occurrence, 
and in its effe6b fo remarkable as almoft to exceed belief, it 
might be thought right to take fome pains in bringing proofs to 
afeertain that fuch a difeafe does really exift : I confider the 
doing fo. as lefs neceflary at prefent, there being two women 
now alive, and refiding in England, who are affedted by the 
complaint. I (hall, however, in the courfe of this Paper, 
bring other evidence from the teftimony of the moft refpeftable 
authors who have confidered this fubject. 
The two following cafes contain a very accurate and diftindt 
hiftory of the progrefs of the difeafe through its different ftages, 
and make any further detail of the fymptoms intirely unne- 
ceffary. 
Mrs. Lonsdale, a woman 56 years old, a native of Horn- 
caftle in Lincolnfhire, fourteen years ago, obferved a moveable 
tumor on the left fide of her head, about two inches above the 
upper arch of the left ear, which gradually increafed in the 
courfe of four or five years to the fize of a pullet’s egg, when it 
burft, and for a week continued to difeharge a thick, gritty 
fluid. In the center of the tumor, after the fluid was dif- 
charged, fhe perceived a fmall foft fubftance, of the fize of a 
pea, and of a reddifh colour on the top, which at that time (he 
took for proud flefh. It gradually increafed in length and 
thicknefs, and continued pliable for about three months, when 
it firft began to put on a horny appearance. In two years and 
three months from its firft formation, made defperate by the 
increafed violence of the pain, fhe attempted to tear it from her 
head ; and with much difficulty, and many efforts, at length 
broke it in the middle, and afterwards tore the root from her 
head, leaving a confiderable depreffion which ftill remains in 
the 
