THE 



PHILADELPHIA 



MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL JOURNAL. 



I. Account of YiETi^^ Moss, a White Negro: toge- 

 ther with Rejiections on the Affection called^ by Phy- 

 siologists^ Leucaethiopia humana; Facts and Conjec- 

 tures relative to the White Colour of Animals^ and. 

 Observations on the Colour of the Human Species. 

 By the Editor*. 



XiENRY MOSS was bom in Goochland-Countf, 

 in the State of Virginia, in the month of July, 1754. 

 He is of a very mixed breed, if I may be allowed the 

 use of an expressive phrase, which is frequently 

 employed by naturalists when treating of other animals. 

 His father's father, and his mother's father, were born 

 in Africa : but in what particular part, he cannot tell. 

 His own father was born in Virginia, and was a very 



• That part of this paper which relates immediately to the case 

 of Moss, was read before the American Philosophical Society, 

 on the 16lh of September, 1796, but is now, for the first time, 

 published. 



