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Title: A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practioners
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Hyde, James Nevins, 1840-1910
Subjects: Skin
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ed with hair, such as the palms, soles, ungualphalanges, prepuce, glans penis, upper eyelids, and vermilion borderof the lips, are not the seat of the pilosis. As the growth of the beard in man is more or less associated withthe maturity of the sexual organs, so we often find the hypertrichosisof women and children related to a precocious, perverted, or arrestedfunction of the generative organs. The reported instances of men-struation in female infants and children usually include a descriptionof abnormal pilary development about prematurely developedpudenda; and after the climacteric period, when some women con-spicuously begin in external appearance to resemble individuals ofthe opposite sex, either isolated, thick, bristle-like hairs develop overthe chin or lips ; or the extreme hirsute condition may be reached. HYPERTRICHOSIS. Duhring1 has reported one such case, which is illustrated by an excel-lent lithograph representing the face of a woman provided with asuperb beard. Fro. 48.
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The Russian Dog-faced Man. The influence of the sexual organs in the hypertrichosis of womenis well demonstrated in the following case coming under the authorsobservation. A married woman, thirty-three years of age, weighing one hundredand fifty pounds, mother of three healthy children, applied, in 1883,for relief of a general and facial hirsuties which had resulted in thegrowth of a full beard and moustache. She had not menstruated formore than a year, and had been pronounced by an expert past theclimacteric. During the years 1884 and 1885 the author removed insuccessive operations the hairs of the face by the electrolytic methoddescribed below. Menstruation began while she was subject to theinfluence of the galvanic current in the operating-chair, and continuedthereafter irregularly, at times with intense pain and even menor-rhagia. In 1886, after the last of the operations on the face, sherather suddenly lost in weight, decreasing to one hundred pounds,and began to menstruate regul

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