title: Everard Home, John Hunter, and cutaneous horns: a historical review.
abstract: A cutaneous horn is a protrusion from the skin made up of cornified material. These horns can be derived from a variety of epidermal lesions, both benign and malignant. This historical article reviews a number of early instances of cutaneous horns, some reported in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Danish anatomist Thomas Bartholin was the first to have a correct theory of the ethiology of these horny growths, and the English surgeons John Hunter and Everard Home confirmed his findings in the late 18th century.
authors.affiliation: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, London, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bondeson
mesh_terms: D003880:Dermatology / Q000266:history; D005260:Female; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000266:history*