Cutaneous Horns
Medical Mysteries
English - October 06, 2020 07:01 - 44 minutes - ★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsTrue Crime History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The earliest description comes from a 16th century British pamphlet, featuring a Welsh widow with a four-inch-long growth protruding out of her forehead. Cutaneous horns were originally regarded as divine punishment, or a spectacle to be paraded around. In more recent decades, doctors have worked to understand the variety of decidedly less supernatural causes.
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The earliest description comes from a 16th century British pamphlet, featuring a Welsh widow with a four-inch-long growth protruding out of her forehead. Cutaneous horns were originally regarded as divine punishment, or a spectacle to be paraded around. In more recent decades, doctors have worked to understand the variety of decidedly less supernatural causes.
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