602 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1755. 



its birth. The novelty of the thing made the farmer spare the life of the lamb, 

 and bring it up till it grew to the size of a well-grown sheep, pretty large of its 

 kind, and about 3 or 4 years old. When it was brought before the Society, the 

 owner said the horn weighed 26 lb. ; and the creature swung it about, and raised 

 it up with amazing strength. When he was fed, he moved forwards, letting 

 the horn drag between his fore-legs, by which he was enabled to lay his nose to 

 the ground ; for the skin, by which it hung, was flexible, and though reduced 

 to a neck, with respect to the circumference of the horn, yet it was hollow as 

 well as flexible, leaving an open passage from the flesh of the neck to the cavity 

 of the horn, and its contents. Sometimes the horn would come into such a 

 position, as to twist the skin, which gave the sheep great uneasiness ; but from 

 . experience he knew how to relieve himself, and from custom became ready at 

 that, as well as bringing it between his legs to favour his feeding. It was in 

 length along the convex or anterior surface, '2 feet 7 inches ; and on the concave 

 side 2 feet 1 inch ; its greatest circumference 2 feet 2 inches, middle circum- 

 ference I foot 6 inches; and near the apex 1 foot; and its weight is now 15 lb. 

 though emptied of its contents. 



It was said that on opening him there was found, in the top of the horn next 

 the throat, which was hollow half-way down, a skull of a contracted round form, 

 with blood-vessels running on it, and a bag filled with grumous blood, among 

 which was a substance like a sheep's liver and lungs ; and a perfect sound kidney, 

 like that of a fresh loin of mutton. And this was attested by the names of 3 

 house-keepers of credit, who were present when the animal was opened, and 

 who, if required, were ready to make oath of it. 



AJTA'. ^ Dissertation on the Cancer of the Eye-lids, Nose, Great Angle of the 

 Eye, and its neighbouring Parts, commonly called the Noli-me-tangere, 

 deemed hitherto Incurable by both Ancients and Moderns, but now shown to be 

 as curable as other Distempers. Addressed to the R. S. of London by Mons. 

 Daviel, Surgeon and Oculist to the King of France, &c. Translated from the 

 French by James Parsons, M.D., F.R.S. p. 186. 



The examinations M. D. had made in these kinds of tumors had informed 

 him, that cancers of the lids, nose, and adjacent parts, have all their seat in the 

 periosteum, and perichondrium ; and that a cure cannot be expected without 

 taking them entirely oft": for the vessels that go from the cancerous tumor are 

 so strongly connected with the periosteum and perichondrium, that they seem 

 but one body, which becomes at length so greatly swelled, that the very bone is 

 often affected. When a wen or wart (which is often the beginning of a cancer) 

 begins to appear, and it is attempted to be pulled off", it becomes irritated, and 

 spreads so that the edges are reversed, and become callous and livid, accompanied 



