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in those of medicine and humanity. It is hoped that the sub- 
director and his coadjutors, appointed to carry these blessings 
to Peru, will shortly return by way of Buenos-Ayres, after 
having accomplished their journey through that viceroyalty, 
the viceroyalty of Lima, and the districts of Chili and Chara- 
cas; and that they will bring with them such collections and 
observations as they have been able to acquire, according to 
the instructions given by the director, without losing sight 
of the philanthropic commission which they received froma 
his majesty in the plenitude of his zeal for the welfare of 
the human race. 
EXTRAORDINARY PHANOMENON. 
The most singularly formed individual in the world, pe- 
haps, exists at this moment at Void, a town in the second 
division of the department of the Meuse. The writer of this 
article vouches for the truth of it: the facts are supported 
by the testimony of respectable medical gentlemen, the 
mayor of the town, and personal examination of this ex- 
traordinary man. 
This unfortunate being enjoys good health, although de- 
prived of the ordinary means of voiding his excrements. He 
has lived more than half. a century, notwithstanding his 
mouth performs by turns the labours of mastication and 
dejection. Being thus deprived in a manner of all the parts 
of the body from the chest downwards, he ‘constantly sits in 
a small cart, which-is drawn by children sbnoeh the streets, 
and he nals by begging. 
His name is Claud Rouget, a native and inhabitant of 
Void,. and he is 59 years of age. In his youth he expe- 
rienced a gradual and long continued compression. © This 
compression was felt from the xiphoid cartilage and over 
the whole extent of the lower belly, so that the pylorus, all 
the viscera of that region, such as the intestines, the liver, 
_ the spleen, the kidneys, the bladder, the glands of the pan- 
creas and of the meseutery, and all the secretory organs, ex- 
perienced such an alteration, that they are as if totally anni- 
hilated. The abdomen is glued to the spine of the back ; all 
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