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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9323, 25 January 1896, Page 7

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A most wouderful case, of which medical science has no record, has beeu reported. It is (writes the Naw York correspondent of the Age) that of an individual who is alleged to be slowly turning from man to monkey. The man in question is John Molanaky, a Polish Jew, forty-one years old. Ho was well und sound until six years ago, when he began to suffer from headaches, which steadily increased in frequency and severity, aud in about a year he began to observo that his features were changing. His jaws became misshapen so that his teeth gave him much trouble. His voice changed so that his friends could not recognise it, and his stomach began to reject the food which he took. His eye 3 grew further apart, tho bridge of his 110.10 widened, his forehead became lower, the nostrils were drawn back, and the hair in his beard and on his head became coarser and stronger. His lips grew thicknr, hia jaw protruded, and as it did so the lips became broader and tho mouth wider. His eyebrows became heavier, the ohoek hones more prominent, and the hands and feet enlarged until the former aro now fully twice tke siza of those of an ordinary person. The fiugors are more than twice as large as they should be. Altogether the case is one of the most remarkable known to medical science.