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Alibert mentions a patient who was operated upon by Clot-Bey, whose scrotum when removed weighed 110 pounds; the man had two children after the disease had continued for thirteen years, but before it had obtained its monstrous development a proof that the functions of the testicles had not been affected by the disease.
Relative to menstruation from the ear, Spindler, Paullini, and Alibert furnish examples. In Paullini's case the discharge is spoken of as very foul, which makes it quite possible that this was a case of middle-ear disease associated with some menstrual disturbance, and not one of true vicarious menstruation. Alibert's case was consequent upon suppression of the menses.
But I don't intend to work it myself. I think of retiring from business. It is you, my boy, who are to launch my Oil Comagene, from the latin word coma, which signifies 'hair, as Monsieur Alibert, the King's physician, says.
Alibert, quoted by Rayer, gives us a report of the case of a young lady who, after a severe fever which followed a very difficult labor, lost a fine head of hair during a discharge of viscid fluid, which inundated the head in every part. He tells us, further, that the hair grew again of a deep black color after the recovery of the patient.
From them a youth of the country, F. Renucci by name, learned the open secret. He conveyed it to Paris when he went there to study medicine, and in 1834 demonstrated it to his master Alibert. This physician, at first sceptical, soon was convinced, and gave out the discovery to the medical world with an authority that led to early acceptance.
The hair, half black, half chestnut, had a very singular appearance. Alibert also saw a young man who lost his brown hair after an illness, and after restoration it became red. The change of color took place in the course of two or three days, beginning first at the free ends, and remaining of the same tint for seven or eight days. The pale hairs had more air-spaces than the darker ones.
But where is Civiale, where are Orfila, Gendrin, Rostan, Biett, Alibert, jolly old Baron Alibert, whom I remember so well in his broad-brimmed hat, worn a little jauntily on one side, calling out to the students in the court-yard of the Hospital St. Louis, "Enfans de la methode naturelle, etes-vous tous ici?" All here, then, perhaps; all where, now? My show of ghosts is over.
"There is a little round place on his crown where the hair will stand up, if he does not wear it rather long," said Mr. Alibert. I was forever hearing that I was pale and small, pale in particular. Strangers would look at me and say: "He is rather pale." Others remarked in joke: "He looks rather green in the face." And so soon as they began talking about me the word "thin" would be uttered.
But where is Civiale, where are Orfila, Gendrin, Rostan, Biett, Alibert, jolly old Baron Alibert, whom I remember so well in his broad-brimmed hat, worn a little jauntily on one side, calling out to the students in the court-yard of the Hospital St. Louis, "Enfans de la methode naturelle, etes-vous tous ici?" All here, then, perhaps; all where, now? My show of ghosts is over.
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