ACCOUNT 



OF A FEMALE 



OF THE WHITE RACE OF MANKIND, 



PART OF WHOSE SKIN 



RESEMBLES THAT OF A NEGRO, &c. 



INSTANCES of the absence of the black co- 

 lour, in the whole or part of the skin in persons 

 of the negro race, are not very uncommon ; bui 

 there is, I believe, no one upon record of an 

 individual of the white race having any part of 

 the body, covered with a skin similar to that of 

 a negro. The following account, therefore, of 

 such an instance, will, perhaps, be acceptable 

 to the philosophical public. I have been ena- 

 bled to form it by the permission of Dr. Turner, 

 one of my colleagues at St. Thomas's Hospital, 

 into which the person, whose case I am to de- 

 scribe, was lately admitted by him, on account 

 of some bodily ailment. 



