NATURAL 
weather happens to be in the least 
cold. 
“This woman has the lower lip 
rather thick, and covered with scabs. 
This lip smarts and at times is very 
painful to her, especially in summer. 
She is subject to the blind piles ; 
and when these take place, the com- 
plaint in her lip ceases. 
“© She has had eleven children in 
ten lyings-in. Jt is since the birth 
of her first child that she has been 
subject to the piles. 
“Of all her children there re- 
main only two. . Almost all of 
those she has suckled have been 
subject to different diseases. Her. 
eldest, who is still living, has a dis- 
ease of the skin similar to the itch, 
but which is not infectious. Her 
youngest child, which she has suck- 
led only a month, is in very good 
health. 
«© This woman is the only one of 
her family who has so great a thirst. 
“« She perspires sufficiently ; and 
her urine is in proportion to what 
she drinks. 
“ She does not spit. 
* She drinks neither wine, nor 
coffee, nor spirituous liquors. 
_« She told us that she ate a great 
deal; but we did not observe this 
while she was with us. 
*¢ This woman drank, in our pre- 
sence, during the space of ten hours 
which she remained with us, four- 
teen quarts (or Paris pints) of water, 
which must be equal to about twen- 
ty-eight pounds, She assured us that 
in the night-time she rises every 
hour and a half to drink; and this 
will be found to make. pretty ex- 
actly the load, or two pailfuls of 
water, which this woman asserts 
that she drinks in four-and-twenty 
hours. 
HISTORY, 
_ © She voided ten quarts of urine 
that was nearly colourless. 
“’M. M. Bonnard, Lair, and Ro- 
billiard, members of the Philomati- 
cal. Society, observed,! with us, this 
woman during a considerable part 
of the day.”” 
391 
While the preceding account was 
preparing for the press, the follow- 
ing paragraph appeared in the Lin- 
coln Mercury of Friday, Decem- 
ber 9, 1791. 
“* However extraordinary the fol- 
lowing circumstance may appear, it 
may be depended on as fact. —Aman 
who lives with Mr. John Julyan, of 
Woodstone, near Peterborough, is 
afflicted with such an immoderate 
degree of thirst, as obliges him to 
drink the astonishing quantity of 
three gallons of water a night, and 
one gallon a day; and w hat makes 
this appear stil! more extraordinary, 
he has continued this practice twen- 
ty-three years.” 
The facts described in this para- 
graph bore too striking a resemblance 
to those he had just before received 
from Paris, not to excite in the Edi- 
tor a wish to see the case more fully 
and satisfactorily investigated. This 
has since been done through the 
kind offices of Sir Joseph Banks, 
Bart. who being acquainted with a 
gentleman in the neighbourhood of 
the patient, on whose accuracy he 
knew he could depend, had the good- 
ness to transmit to him some queries 
from the Editor relative to this sub- 
ject, with a request that he would 
engage in the inquiry. 
In consequence of this request, 
Mr. Maxwell, the gentleman alluded 
to, sent for ‘the man to his house, 
where he remained a whole night, 
and was carefully attended ts." “The 
Bb4 result 
