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different animals, without any real coition between the two species. There was 

 showed to me a pig at Weeford in Staffordshire, with a face something repre- 

 senting that of a man's; the chin was very like that of a human foetus ; the 

 roundness of the head and flatness of the ears was surprising. But when I had 

 carefully viewed the head, I observed there was a depression of the bones of the 

 nose in that place which was between the eyes, in which the pig's face seemed 

 to be broken, and the nose drawn up to appear like human : the under-jaw was 

 inverted, growing up to meet the upper ; the tongue and mouth were made 

 more like the human, being altered by some external pressure on the pig's 

 mouth, which broke the bones of the nose, and caused their depression to- 

 wards the palate, and the inversion of the under-jaw. This pressure on the 

 mouth forced the bones upward, so as to cover the eye-holes, and the pig ap- 

 pears blind: the depressed bone shut itself with a spring, when forcibly opened ; 

 so that it had grown close up ever since it was cartilaginous. By this breach or 

 depression of the pig's face, I was first convinced that this monster was not 

 from the conjunction of both kinds, but only occasioned by some sort of com- 

 pression: and that the pig's head was straitened in its growth, appeared by the 

 flatness of the ears ; and that this depressure happened while the bones were 

 cartilaginous, appears by the bones depressed, which remained cartilaginous, 

 and at the same time the under jaw was inverted, and the head made more 

 round. I farther observed that all the head was covered with hair, as the other 

 pigs were ; that the teeth in the mouth were pig's teeth ; the hair of the pig's 

 head was yellow as that of the sow was : the monstrous pig was as large, and as 

 well grown as the rest of the pigs, and therefore begot by the boar at the same 

 time; the nose was a perfect pig's snout, and there was no upper lip, as in the 

 human kind ; in all the other parts it appeared to be a perfect pig, no parts be- 

 ing wanting but those of the face, distorted by some external accident. This 

 monster was pigged alive ; but died because it could not suck, the nose being 

 stopped. Its cry was not like the other pigs, because of the stoppage of its 

 nose, and the alteration of the figure of its mouth. The sow pigged 8 pigs ; 

 the first five were perfect pigs, the sixth was the monster, and after that two 

 more perfect pigs, all which I saw sucking the sow, and as well shaped, and as 

 large as usual, being then three or four days old. 



work which contains many original observations, prosecuted for a series of years, on the pulse, both 

 in its natural and diseased states. A Treaii.se on the Asthma 16985 in which there is an excellent de- 

 scription of the paroxysms of that obstinate disease, under which the author himself laboured up- 

 wards of 30 years, together with many valuable hints relative to its treatment, One of the last of 

 this author's works is his treatise entitled Medicina Geronica j which relates to the means of preserv- 

 ing the health of persons in advanced years. 



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