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not uniformly so. The surface wag not hairy ; and, ex- cepting some increased sensitiveness, was otherwise health)-. About eight months before its removal, melanotic tumors, of a rounded, button-shaped form, began to appear ; and several of them had been removed by the patient himself, by ligature. The whole was excised by Dr. M., and the wound healed almost at once ; but the man died within a few months after the operation.
The specimen shows a portion of the skin discolored, but otherwise healthy ; other parts more or less rough from the disease ; and one dark melanotic mass, 1 by 2 in. in diameter, and half an inch thick ; the disease being con- fined to the skin. 1858. Dr. Wm. Mack, of Salem.
2039. Melanosis developed upon a boil.
From a healthy man, set. twenty-five years, who had had a common boil upon the thigh, that ran the usual course, and was about well, when the tender cicatrix was bruised, and there sprouted forth the morbid growth, which, after resisting treatment for three months, was at last removed. It was not larger than a filbert, was confined to the skin, and presented the usual appearances of melanosis. (Med. Jour. Vol. LXIV. p. 92.) 1860. Dr. E. M. Hodges.
2040. A drawing, in water-colors, by Mr. D., of a case of en- cephaloid disease of the thigh, taken after death. The microscopic appearances are also shown. (See No. 2165.) 1859. Mr. John Dean, student of medicine.
2041. Hypertrophy of the great toe-nail ; from a woman, aet. sixty-two years. 1853. Dr. D. H. Storer.
2042-3. The toes of a mulatto woman, over ninety years of age, removed after death, and preserved in spirit, showing a remarkable growth of all of the nails, that had been growing from the time that she froze her feet, fifteen years before.
The toes of the other foot, dried, and showing the same. 1866. Dr. Henry E. Oliver.
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