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Show Horns form the Ilnmnn liwly. Horns growing from the humtui slrin ire very uncommon in their occurrence, but one of the foreign medical journals contains an account from a physician of a case of this kind treated by him, the subject being a laboring man of 8r years. The horn projected for an inch from the lower lip on the right side, and Imd a - blunt extremity, was firmly adherent and the skin around at the base exhibited exhib-ited superficial ulceration. The fact as elicited was that it had first appeared as a small warty growth some three years previously, had slowly increased, and aftor being cut off with a razor on two occasms seemed to grow again quicker each time. On the opposite oppo-site side of the same lip was what ap-. ap-. peared to le another warty growth in its rarly stages, and the patient was in the habit of holding liis clay pipe this side and not on that from which th horn grew. There were no glands enlarged en-larged and the patient was in a good state of health. The treatment, which was entirely successful, consisted in the removal of tho horn, together with the part of the lip to which it was attached, by means of a small V sluiped incision under cocaine locally injected, and bringing the edges together with one or two sutures. New York Tribune. |