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and those of the greatest authority ; one of which, as it has the attestation of 

 a whole university, it cannot be improper to mention here. M. Drelincourt, a 

 very noted physician, tells us, in his Treatise on the Small Pox, of a child 8 

 years of age, who had lost his tongue by that distemper, and was yet able to 

 speak, to the astonishment of the University of Saumur in France j and that 

 the University had attested it, by drawing up a particular account of the fact, 

 that posterity might have no room to doubt concerning the validity of it. The 

 account is to be met with at large, in the 3d vol. of the Ephemerides Germa- 

 nicae, under the title of Aglossostomographia. 



Tulpius too makes mention of a man who had the misfortune to have his 

 tongue cut out by the Turks, and yet, after 3 years could speak very distinctly. 

 He says, he went himself to Wesop, a town in Holland, to be satisfied of the 

 truth of it, and found it to be as it was reported. Nay, he does not so much as 

 mention any defect in his speech, but assures us that he could pronounce those 

 letters which depend on the apex of the tongue, even the consonants, very 

 articulately. And this case is still the more worthy attention, because the patient 

 could not swallow even the least quantity of food, unless he thrust it into the 

 oesophagus by means of his finger. 



If we go back to earlier times, the emperor Justin, in Cod. Tit. de Off. Praef. 

 Praet. Af. says, he has seen venerable men, qui abscissis radicitus Unguis, 

 poenas miserabiliter loquebantur, whose tongues having been cut out by the 

 roots, they miserably spoke, or complained of the punishments they had suf- 

 fered. And again. Nonnullos alios, quibus Honorichius Vandalorum rex 

 linguas radicitus praeciderat, loquelam tamen habuisse integram, that some 

 others, whose tongues Honorichius, king of the Vandals, had cut out by the 

 roots, yet perfectly retained their speech. 



A remarkable Conformation, or Lusus Natures, in a Child. By C. JVarwick, 

 Surgeon, Truro. N° 464, p. 1 52. 



About April 1741, one Sarah Allen, of the parish of St. Blazy, near Truro,, 

 having been married near 4 years, and mother of 1 children, well-formed and 

 living, was brought to bed of the present subject, but of so remarkable and 

 preternatural a constitution, as must render its whole life inevitably miserable,, 

 the particulars of which are as follow : 



The umbilicus was nearly in its natural site, but somewhat large and promi.- 

 nent, having more the appearance of a tumour, than the ordinary irregular 

 shape of that organ. Immediately below this umbilicus, was a large fungous 

 excrescence, nearly the size of a small egg, but somewhat depressed, of a fiery 

 aspect, and exquisitely sensible. The surface was irregular, being composed of 

 divers granulations or small lobes of flesh ; and the basis of it Mr, W. could not 



