Copy 1, Volume 1

The wonders of the little world: or, a general history of man, displaying the various faculties, capacities, powers and defects of the human body and mind / By Nathaniel Wanley.

Nathaniel Wanley

Date:: 1806

Credit: The wonders of the little world: or, a general history of man, displaying the various faculties, capacities, powers and defects of the human body and mind / By Nathaniel Wanley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

21/432 (page 5)

$vin such a violent fit of crying, as the mother says she never heard the like, After the child was dead: there appeared, in those places from whence the blood issued, little holes like the prickings of a mage A man living not Jong since in Bristol always. ate ‘his food Paine: and trily raminate das cows, sheep, and other beasts do, and always did so ever since he could remember. He began to chew his meat a second time within a quarter of an ‘ hour after his meal, if he drank with it, if not, something longer,: after a full meal, his chewing lasted about an hour and halt. If he went to bed presently after meals, he could not s'eep till the usual time of chewing was over. If it Jeft him, it was a certain sign he would be sick, and was never well till it returned again. Before rumination, he said, his victuals laid heavy in the lower part of his throat, til] ithad passed the second chew- ing, and then passed clean away. And _this he always observed, . that if he eat of various things, that which passed first ‘down came up first to be chewed. This account came to Dr. Sloan, from Mr. Day, at that time mayor of Bristol, who said, this person was about twenty years of age,- and of tolerable sense and reason. 22. Mr. St. George Ash, Secretary of the Dublin Society, ina letter to one of the Secretaries of the Royal Society, relates the story of a girl, named Anne city of Waterford in Ireland, from whose body, when about three years old, horns Brew: out in several places, wherefore the mother concealed her out of shame, and bred her ue privately ; but she soon after dying, and the father being poor, the child was thrown upon the parish. She is now, says he, between thirteen and fourteen years of age, yet can scarce go, and I have seen children of: five years old taller ; she is very siily, speaks but little, and that not plainly ; her voice is low and Tough, her complexion and face well enough, except her eyes, which are very dead, and she can hardly perceive ‘the difference of colours. ‘The horns abound chiefly about the joints and flexures, and are fastened to the'skin like warts ; \ and about the roots resemble them much in substance, though’ toward the extremi- ties they grow much harder, and more horny. At the end of each finger and toe grows a horn as long as the finger and toe, not. strait, but bending like a turkey’s claw. On the other joints of her fingers and toes are smaller horns, which some-’ times fall off, and others grow in their On her knees and elbows, and round about the joints are many horns ; two more remarkable at the point of each elbow, which twist like rams- horns; that on her Jeft arm is above an inch broad, and four inches long. On her buttocks grow a great number, ~ which are flat by frequent sitting. At her arm- pits and the nipples of her breasts, small hard substances shoot out, much slenderer At each ear also grows ahorn; and the skin of her neck begins of late to be callous and horny, like that. of her hands and feet. She eats and drinks heartily, sleeps sound- ly, and performs ail the offices of nature like other healthy people. 23. < Anative of Toledo in Spain, about twenty-three years of age, who was Jately at Paris, made different ¢ experiments to show that he was capable of enduring incommoded. The following is an ex~ tract of those made at the School of Medi- cine, before several of the professors, about three hundred of the pupils, and several other persons. Care was taken to subject him to previous examination, and it was found that his state exhibited nothing dif- ferent from that of aman in good health. minute, » Ist. A vessel ‘containing oil, heated to 85° of Reaumur being prepared, he opened his hand, and applied the palm of it several times to the oil; he then washed his hands and face in the oil, and | applied the soles of his feet to it. At the endof theexperi-nent the heat of the oil was still from 76 to 78 degrees. —2d. A bar of iron from eighteen to twenty inches long, its extremities, and placed on bricks. The Spaniard placed the sole of his foot on the a portion of the oil which still adhered$