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in irregular shoots of 8 or 9 inches in length. You could not pass your hand 

 between his two knees, which inclined much towards the right, his left shoulder 

 having been the highest. One of the bones of his left arm was once broken by 

 a fall, and nature had shot out another bone a little above the bending of the 

 arm, which united to the broken bone, and made it much stronger than it was 

 before, though the bone seemed more liable to decay about the place where it 

 was formerly broken. All the cartilages of his breast, 4 only excepted, were 

 turned to bone. These 4 served to move his breast in respiration. 



Out of his heels there frequently grew bones like the spurs of a cock, 2 or 3 

 inches long, which he shed as a deer does his horns. When he was dissected, 

 there was a bone found in the fleshy part of his arm, quite distinct and disen- 

 gaged from any other bone ; it was very thin, about 4 inches long, and 4-th 

 part of an inch broad, with several ramifications. Yet while these J)ones were 

 growing, he never complained of any pain in his muscles. ' 



The bishop met with a man at Inishanan, about 10 miles from Cork. He 

 was about 70 years of age, by birth a Frenchman, but was a refugee on ac- 

 count of his religion; was bred a gardener, and had been industrious, till de- 

 prived of his strength by age. 



This man affirmed he had once suckled a child of his own. His wife, he 

 said, died when the child was about 1 months old : the child crying exceed- 

 ingly while it was in bed with him, he gave it his breast to suck, only with an 

 expectation to keep it quiet ; but he found that the child in time extracted 

 milk ; and he affirmed, that he had milk enough afterwards to rear the child. 

 The bishop looked at his breasts, which were then very large for a man ; and 

 the nipple was as large or larger than any woman's he ever saw.* 



Concerning the Casarian Operation performed by an ignorant Butcher. 



N''46l, p. 814. 



Sarah Mc Kinna, who now lives at Brentram, 2 miles from the city of 

 Clogher, in the county of Tyrone, was married at the age of 16 years. Before 

 her marriage she never had the appearance peculiar to women ; but in a month 

 after her marriage, those appearances showed themselves properly. Ten months 

 after her marriage, she found the symptoms of pregnancy, and bore a child at 

 the expiration of the usual time. Ten months after she was delivered of an- 

 other ; and each time had a speedy and easy delivery. 



* No mention is made that the organs of generation were examined, so as to afford positive proof 

 that this person was a man. But admitting the person to have been a man, there appears to have 

 been no other evidence but the man's own assertion, that a child had been supplied with milk from 

 his breasts. The largeness of the breasts and of the nipples can by no means be admitted as a proof 

 thereof. 



