An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson.
- Q6286581
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![fome time before in the woods of Caune, in France, looking after acorns and roots, upon which he fubfifted; was met, in the fame: place, toward the clofe of the year 1 798, by three fports- men, who feize’d upon him at the inftant he was climbing a tree to evade their purfuit. He was brought to Paris, his fenfeés being in fuch a ftate of inertia, as render’d him ‘ vaftly inferior, with regard to difcernment, to the more intelli- gent of domestic animals ;’” his voice, moft. of all imperfect, uttering onely a guttural and uni- © formfound. The onely monofyllables he is able | to uiter, and ta which he annexes no idea or meaning are fait, Ja, or Ili, ob due! (the repetition, of a parrot, of ob diew/) Whatever wants or ideas he has are exprefs’d by things or figns ; as, for inftance, if he wifh to drink, he points toa pitcher ; if, todine, he lays the cloth on the table, and prefents to madame Guerin, his governels, the plates, that fhe may go into the kitchen to fil them: but, in fhort, every one fhould read, with attention, the interefting ac- counts of citizen P. J. Bonnaterre, and E. M. Irard, phyfician to the national inftitution of the medical fociety of Paris: the latter of which is intitle?d (in the Engleifh tranflation) “* An LA] hiftorical account of the discovery and educa- tion of a favage man, ar of the fir(t develope-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088494_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
