Concept
Horns, Cutaneous
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![[Leaflet about Elizabeth French, "The horned woman", born at Tenterden in Kent giving a brief hsitpory from Sloane MS. 5246; page 101 with a mounted aquatint engraving. She had a horn-like growth at the back of her head ten inches long and several smaller stumps. The horn was not attached to her skull and caused pain if pressure was applied. She was hired by a Mr Fauks for a number of years until she broke her horn, which was bought by Sir Hans Sloane].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28548528_EPH_499C_20_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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Jane Shore (mistress of King Edward IV), Henry Hastings (Dorset landowner and sportsman), Jedediah Buxton (mental calculator), and Mary Davis (with horns). Etching, 1808.
Date: 1 June 1808Reference: 2350i
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Bemerkungen über einen monstreusen Canarien-Vogel : aus dessen Unterkiefer ein lang gewundenes Horn gewachsen ; an den Herrn Grafen von Büffon ... mit einer ausgemahlten Kupfertafel.
Schultz, Ernst Christoph.Date: [1780]
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Mary Davis, a woman with horns, aged 74. Engraving, 1792.
Date: 10 September 1792Reference: 244i
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A man with a cutaneous horn-like growth on the scalp. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837.
Lam, Qua.Date: [1837?]Reference: 679515i
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Elizabeth French, a woman with horns. Pen drawing.
Reference: 297i