ioo. Mr. Home’s Obfervations on 
expreffed in the figure ; but the horn is coming dire&ly out 
from the furface of the lkin. 
In the Natural Hiftory of Chefhire *, a woman is men- 
tioned to have lived in the year 1668, who had a tumor or 
wen upon her head for 32 years, which afterwards enlarged^ 
and two horns grew out of it; fhe was then 72 years old. 
There is a horny excrefcence in the Britifh Mufeum, which 
is eleven inches long, and two inches and a half in circum- 
ference at the bafe, or thickeft part. The following account 
of this horn I have been favoured with by Dr. Gray, taken 
from the records of the Mufeum. A woman, named French, 
who lived near Tenterden, had a tumor or wen upon her head, 
which increafed to the fize of a walnut ; and in the 48th year of 
her age this horn began to grow, and in four years arrived at 
its prefent fize •+. \ 
There are many fimilar hiftories of thefe horny excrefcences 
in the authors I have quoted, and in feveral others; but thofe 
mentioned above are the moft accurate and particular with 
refpeft to their growth, and in all of them we find the origin was 
from a tumor, as in the two cafes I have related ; and although 
the nature of the tumor is not particularly mentioned, there 
can be no doubt of its being of the incyfted kind, fince in its 
* Lee’s Natural Hiftory of Lancafhire and Chefhire. 
f The following extraft is taken from the Minutes of the Royal Society/ Feb. 
14, 1704-5. 
“ A Letter was read' from Dr. Chariere, at Barnftaple, concerning a horn, 
il feven inches long, cut off the fecond vertebra of the neck of a woman in that 
4i neighbourhood. 
‘‘ Dr. Gregory faid, that one of feven inches long, and of a dark brown 
“ colour, was cut off from a woman’s temple at Edinburgh. 
Dr. Norris faid, that two horns had been cut off from a woman’s head 
“ in Chdhire. 
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