. Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences . His father reported that, at birth, the sMn of this boy resembled that of other children, and continued so for seven or eight weeks; when, without any apparent cause, and without his being even sick, it began to turn yellow, as if he had had the jaundice: that it afterwards changed gradually into black, then thickened, and finally appeared as we have already described. When this boy grew up, he gained a subsistence by exhibiting himself publicly as ** the Porcupine Man," along with a son of his, also in the same conditi
. Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences . His father reported that, at birth, the sMn of this boy resembled that of other children, and continued so for seven or eight weeks; when, without any apparent cause, and without his being even sick, it began to turn yellow, as if he had had the jaundice: that it afterwards changed gradually into black, then thickened, and finally appeared as we have already described. When this boy grew up, he gained a subsistence by exhibiting himself publicly as ** the Porcupine Man," along with a son of his, also in the same condition. His name was Edward Lambert, and at the age of forty years he was thus described by Mr Henry Baker:—" He is a good-looking, well-shaped man, of a florid countenance —and, when his body and hands are covered, seems nothing different from other people; biit, except his head and face, the palms of his hands, and the soles of his feet, his skin was covered in the same manner as in the year 1731. Tbis covering seems to me most nearly to resemble an innumerable company of warts, of a dark brown colour, and a cylindrical figure rising to a like height, and growing as close as possible to one another, hut so stiff and elastic, that when the hand is drawn over thjm they make a rustling noise. " When I saw this man, in the month of September last, they were shedding off in several places, and young ones of a paler brown succeeding in their room, which he told me happens annually in some of the autumn or winter months; and then ho commonly is let blood, to prevent some little sickness which he else is subject to whilst they are falling off. At other times he is incommoded by them no otherwise than by fretting out his Hnen, which, he says, they do very quicidy; and when they come to their full growth, being then in many places ncai" an inch in height, the pressure of his clothes is troublesome. " He has had the small-pox, and been twice salivated, in hopes of ge
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