TY  - JOUR
T1  - CRipple manufacture for begging purposes.
Y1  - 1899/02/04
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1899.02450320044007
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 252
EP  - 253
VL  - XXXII
IS  - 5
N2  - The British Medical Journal recently stated that the manufacture of cripples to be let out as decoys for the alms of the charitable, is still said to be a flourishing industry in some parts of the Pyrenees. It would appear, remarks the same journal, that this is not one of the many inventions which make the so-called nineteenth century famous in the records of the ages, for Fabricius Hildanus, in his chapter on preternatural tumors, relates the following story: "In the year 1593 there was seen in Paris a boy of fifteen or eighteen months, the skin of whose head was so much stretched that it greatly exceeded the size of a natural hydrocephalus. The father and mother of the child carried him about from place to place as a monstrosity. As the concourse of people was great the magistrate suspected that there was some fraud in the matter and
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1899.02450320044007
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450320044007
ER  -