Excerpt from Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, 1875, Vol. 9
It may perhaps be doubted how far good is likely to accrue from drawing inferences concerning normal development from the conditions found in monsters. Granting this to the full, the interest attaching to malformations does not subside. They will still have an individual noteworthiness, and they are always suggestive. From either aspect, whether as being departures from the normal and thus indicating some of the yet secret steps by which perfect development is accomplished or as mere curiosities and freaks of nature, the cases I have now to record will not be thought out of place in a journal devoted to Anatomy and Physiology.
Com 1. - It is the skeleton of an adult male, 64 years of age, which has been recently added to the Hunterian Museum at the College of Surgeons. Of its previous history I could learn very little. It was ascertained, however, that the man was the offspring of a lamplighter and a ballad-singer, and even from early childhood had been known to be dragged about crippled, by his mother, as an additional stimulant to the flow of Charity. For many years before his death he was the inmate of a workhouse, always enjoying good health, and never paralyzed. He died of some acute chest disease.
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