562 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1755. 



being cut out, he filled the wound with lint, 8cc. and in 3 days removed the 

 dressings, with a great quantity of sanies, which were daily renewed, and tlie 

 part of the cist, which was left behind, sloughed off the id day. The cure went 

 on with success, and, in a month from the operation, was completed ; and she 

 remained free from pain from that time to the above date. 



Having examined the diseased eye after its excision, they found the humours 

 very much confused : the aqueous humour was not so clear as usual, the crystal- 

 line less solid and transparent, and the vitreous almost reduced to a liquid state. 

 The cist was very strong and elastic, and had a cavity large enough to contain a 

 hen's egg. 



V. A Supplement to the Account of a Distempered Skin, published in the A2Aih 

 iV" of the Phil. Trans.* Bjj Mr. Henry Baker, F.R.S. p, 21. 



In 1731, a lad, 14 years of age, was brought by his father from Euston-Hall, 

 in Suffolk, and shown to the r.s. on account of his having a cuticular disorder, 

 of a different kind from any noticed in the histories of diseases, as mentioned in 

 the aforesaid N° of the Phil. Trans. 



More than 24 years from the date of that account, he was living, and shown at 

 London by the name of the porcupine-man. His name was Edward Lambert. 

 He was then 40 years of age, a good-looking, well-shaped man, of a florid coun- 

 tenance ; and when his body and hands were covered, seemed nothing different 

 from other people. But except his head and face, the palms of his hands, and 

 bottoms of his feet, his skin was all over covered in the same manner as in 1731. 

 This covering seemed to Mr. B. most nearly to resemble an innumerable com- 

 pany of warts, of a dark-brown colour, and a cylindric figure, rising to a like 

 height, and growing as close as possible to each other ; but so stiff and elastic, 

 then when the hand was drawn over them, they made a rustling noise. 



When he saw this man, in September 1755, they were shedding off in several 

 places, and young ones, of a paler brown, succeeding in their stead, which, he 

 said, happened annually in some bf the autumn or winter months : and then he 

 commonly was let blood, to prevent some little sickness, which he else was sub- 

 ject to while they were falling off. At other times he was incommoded by them 

 no otherwise, than by the fretting out his linen, which, he said, they did very 

 quickly : and when they came to their full growth, being then in many places 

 near an inch in height, the pressure of his clothes was troublesome. 



He had had the small-pox, and been twice salivated, in hopes of getting rid of 

 this disagreeable covering : during which disorders the warting came off, and his 



•Vol. vii, p. SW, of these Abridgments. 



