ANATOMICAL EXAMINATION OF THE BODY 

 OF THOMAS PARR. 



THOMAS PARR, a poor countryman, born near Winnington, 

 in the county of Salop, died on the 14th of November, in the 

 year of grace 1635, after having lived one hundred and fifty- 

 two years and nine months, and survived nine princes. This 

 poor man, having been visited by the illustrious Earl of 

 Arundel when he chanced to have business in these parts, 

 (his lordship being moved to the visit by the fame of a thing 

 so incredible,) was brought by him from the country to 

 London; and, having been most kindly treated by the earl 

 both on the journey and during a residence in his own house, 

 was presented as a remarkable sight to his Majesty the King. 



Having made an examination of the body of this aged in- 

 dividual, by command of his Majesty, several of whose prin- 

 cipal physicians were present, the following particulars were 

 noted : 



The body was muscular, the chest hairy, and the hair on the 

 fore-arms still black ; the legs, however, were without hair, and 

 smooth. 



The organs of generation were healthy, the penis neither 

 retracted nor extenuated, nor the scrotum filled with any se- 

 rous infiltration, as happens so commonly among the decrepid; 

 the testes, too, were sound and large ; so that it seemed not 

 improbable that the common report was true, viz. that he did 

 public penance under a conviction for incontinence, after he 

 had passed his hundredth year ; and his wife, whom he had 



