| Description | Account of a farmer's wife in Poland who lived with the long matted hair for fifty years - it was cut off after she died - it was four yards long, two inches thick and broad as a hand. Engraved figure attached.
Subject: Physiology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Casus rarissimus plicæ polonicæ enormis à D. Abrahamo Vatero, M. D. Prof. Anatom. Wittemberg. & R. S. S. per D. Conradum Sprengell, Equitem, M. D. R. S. S. & Coll. Med. Lond. Licent. communicatus. Vid. Tab. II. Fig. 2.'
Read to the Royal Society on 4 February 1730 |