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IN NATURE for September 21, 1876, I gave an account of a peculiar abnormality in a girl aged eight, in whom the coccyx was turned backwards and upwards, and a little above it there was a circular depression in the skin, about ¼ inch in diameter, and about ¼ inch deep. On being dragged downwards the skin in this hollow became everted and formed a covering to the point of the coccyx. Shortly afterwards I had an opportunity of examining the other children of the family, with the following results:—
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DUNLOP, A. Abnormal Coccyx. Nature 18, 94 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018094d0
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