Horny tumors—Cornua Cutanea—Horny Excrescences—Cornes de la Peau— Production Cornée.

Pancoast, William Henry, 1835-1897.

Journal : Photographic review of medicine & surgery ; vol. 1., no. 1.

Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1870-71.

Description : pp. 2-7, [1] pl. ; ill.: 1 photo. ; 24 cm.

Photograph : mounted albumen.

Subject : Skin — Cornii.

Notes :

• Author caption: "BY WM. H. PANCOAST, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy, Jefferson Medical College, Surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital, and Surgeon to Charity Hospital, etc."
• First president of the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, 1886-96.
• Includes bibliographical material.
• Reference: Gould, George M. & Pyle, Walter L. (1898) Anomalies and curiosities of medicine. London: Rebman (p. 226).
• Reference: Henry (1871) American Journal of Syphilography and Dermatology. NY: F. W. Christern (pp. 168-170).
• Index Medicus: 10603581020.

THE accompanying photograph is that of   Capt. Levi Becket, a resident of Atlantic City, New Jersey. The horny tumors were photographed on his face by simply tying them on in the position from which they fell, he having come to me with them in his hand.

A woodcut of this photograph appears in Gould & Pyle: