From Miami Union dated April 17, 1880

REMARKABLE MONSTROSITY

 

A Child Born With the Head and Face of a Bulldog

 

     Mr. C. F. Grosvenor, Troy correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette sends the following to his paper of the 14th inst.  It is a good description of one of the most remarkable monstrosities on record.

 

     Troy, O., April 13.--A singular and somewhat horrible case of the birth of a monstrosity occurred at or near Nashville, in Miami County, last Friday, April 9.  Dr. John G. Senour, of Troy, was called to attend a lady in child birth, and the result was a still born monster--a male child having a face resembling a bulldog, but otherwise fully developed.  It seems that the mother at the period of two months gestation had received a fright caused by the shooting of a bulldog, and the child was delivered at seven months.  The countenance is an almost exact imitation of a bulldog, with hair lip, flat nose, flattened eyes, large mouth, and the head set upon the shoulders with no development of neck.  There was a peculiar hole in the back of the head, said to be at the same position where the bullet struck the dog, and on the back of the child is a mark like that left on the neck of the dog by the burning of the powder.  Dr. Senour has the child preserved in alcohol, and it has been visited by many of our citizens, and is, altogether, a remarkable case of this kind.