134- Account of the Nuremberg Boy:, Caspar Hauser. 



Annates de Cliimie and Physique, Jan. 1829. 



Account of the Nuremberg Boy, Caspar Hauser, who was shut 

 up in a Dungeon from the fourth to the sixteenth year of his 

 age. 

 A BOUT twenty-five years ago public curiosity and the solicitude 

 of the scientific world, were powerfully excited by the discovery 

 of the wild man of Aveyron, who was surprised in the woods 

 leaping from tree to tree, living, in a naked state, the life of a ba- 

 boon rather than that of a man, emitting no other sounds than 

 imitations of the cries of animals which he had heard, or those 

 which made their escape from his breast without the emotions 

 of pleasure or suffering. A phenomenon of nearly a similar 

 nature has, for the last fifteen months, engaged the attention of 

 the learned in Germany. But in this case there do not exist 

 the entire liberty, and the wild and erratic life, which degraded 

 the intellect of the unfortunate being just mentioned. There 

 has, on the contrary, been a state of absolute constraint and 

 captivity. Hitherto nothing had transpired in France respect- 

 ing this singular phenomenon, and we should probably have 

 still remained ignorant of it, had it not been for the attempt at 

 assassination made a month ago upon this unfortunate creature, 



