Southern Utonian | 1888-04-06 | Page 7 | Human Curiosity in Austrin

human curiosity lit in austria A remarkable case of disease is ia at present engrossing the attention of medical men in austria there is lying at the hospital of the city of ischa bischl a patient afflicted with a bony excrescence protruding from between the lower cervical vertebrae the excrescence has the form of a horn is round and straight with a diameter of one and a half inches it has grown to a length of about eight inches and would probably have been much longer by this time but for the fact that the point was broken off several times to be sent to tho the pathologic institute of vienna for examination there is no feeling in the horn hom the breaking off of the points which the patient did himself causing him no pain whatever at the root where the horn is attached atta clied to the spinal column it is soft and movable but bat it rapidly grows bardana hard bar dand and is like bone at a short dib distance tance from tho the root foreign letter