Identifier: evolutiondisease00blan (find matches)
Title: Evolution and disease
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936
Subjects: Diseases Medical genetics Abnormalities, Human Animals Disease Congenital Abnormalities
Publisher: New York : Scribner & Welford
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Fig. 47.—The head of a Satyr (yEgipan) with asessile cervical auricle. (British Museum.) statues of fauns and satyrs. My talented friend, Mr. S.G. Shattock, first drew my attention to this matter.They are not always represented of the same shape orsize, but nearly always occupy the same situation on theneck : thus in the statue of an aegipan (satyrs with goat-like legs) in the British Museum, the auricles are sessile(fig. 47). This is the common form in man. These appendages are not seen on the statues of VESTIGIAL STRUCTURES. 9i modern fauns so constantly as in ancient fauns, and areusually represented as pendulous structures, admirablyshown in the drawing of a faun in the Capitol (fig. 48).In all cases these pendulous skin tags in the statues are
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Fig. 48. -A Faun and Goat from the Capitol, withcervical auricles. placed along the anterior border of the sternb-mastoidmuscle. It is, of course, a matter for discussion whetherthe sculptors obtained their notion of the cervicalauricles from human models or from goats. In some 92 E VOL UTION AND DISEASE. cases they may have obtained them from man, but inthe majority of instances, especially the pendulousauricles of fauns, the goat furnished the model. This isillustrated in the faun from the Capitol, for we see bythe side of the faun a goat with cervical auricles clearlyand unmistakably represented (fig. 48), and on thefauns shoulders a goats skin is thrown. The goatelement in the composition of these satyrs is evident inmore ways than one ; the segipans are goat-legged andtheir tails are excellent copies of that appendage in thegoat. Be this as it may, we are bound to admit that theold sculptors were close observers of nature. The grounds for regarding these congenital appen-dages in

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