[245]Le Diable (Paris 1864).
[246]In the doctrine of the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary, this factor is involved.
[247]See above 44.
[248]P. 98. Chapter XII, of Martin’s work, (‘Les Monstres Celebres’), furnishes many supplements to Lycosthenes work, including some interesting examples of Hermaphrodites.
[249]Martin p. 100.
[250]The mummy was found in the cemetery reserved for the sacred animals, from which Martin concludes that the Egyptians shared the general belief in monsters as due to the combination of the human with the animal. It would be interesting in view of the present stage of Egyptological research to determine the exact character of the mummy which was thus destined to play so important a part in the history of modern medicine. See Martin, ib Introduction p. V.
[251]See Guinard,Précis de Teratologie(Paris 1854) in which a full account of the theory of St. Hilaire and of those who followed in his footsteps is given.
[252]P. T. Barnum, the famous American showman, in his Memoirs tells in a most frank manner of the manufacture of his monsters—living and dead.
[253]Hist. Nat. VII 3.
[254]Amsterdamer Weekblad voor Nederland, May 28, 1911. The illustration attached to the description reveals the bogus character of the ‘monster’.