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The Natural History of Pliny, Vol. 3

by Pliny the Elder

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Chap. 113 (52.) — Superfluous Limbs

Supernumerary limbs, when they grow on animals, are of no use, which is the case also with the sixth finger, when it grows on man. It was thought proper in Egypt to rear a human monster, that had two additional eyes in the back part of the head; it could not see with them, however.

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