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Title: Curiosities of Medicine -Monstrocities and Abnomalies
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ANOMALITIES AND CURIOSITIES OF MEDICINE
by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle
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Monstrosities have attracted notice from the earliest time, and many of the ancient philosophers made references to them. In mythology we read of Centaurs, impossible beings who had the body and extremities of a beast; the Cyclops, possessed of one enormous eye; or their parallels in Egyptian myths, the men with pectoral eyes,--the creatures \"whose heads do beneath their shoulders grow;\" and the Fauns, those sylvan deities whose lower extremities bore resemblance to those of a goat. Monsters possessed of two or more heads or double bodies are found in the legends and fairy tales of eve...

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