A TAILED CHILD.
The Louisville 'Commercial' gives an account of a cailed child recently Utij§ there. As isuch cases are of scienter interest, and are very rare, a party of four, including a prominent doctor, concluded to investigate the case:— " We found a female negro child, eight weeks old, normally formed in all respects, except that slightly to the left of the median line, and about lin above the lower end of the spinal column, is a fleshy pedunculated protuberance about 2|in long. At the base it is an ljin in circumference. A quarter of an inch from the base it is somewhat larger, aiid from that it tapers gradually to a small blunt point. It resemb'ies a pigs tail in shape, but sho\sT^
no sign of bone or cartilage. There seems to be a small mole-like protuberance at the point of attachment, The appendage has grown in length about a a quarter of an inch since the birth of the child. The mother, Lucy Clarke, is a quadroon, seventeen years old, fiti the father a negro of twenty—bW' normally formed.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1805, 4 October 1884, Page 2
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181A TAILED CHILD. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1805, 4 October 1884, Page 2
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