THE WANT OF FORE-ARMS AND HANDS, 459 
if any doubt exist on this subject, it may be removed 
by the very interesting case, mentioned in this Society, 
relative to a German, born in the year 1674, who, to 
the loss of fore-arms and hands, added even that of 
the feet. This individual visited Edinburgh about a cen- 
tury ago, and attracted the attention of many scientific men, 
among whom was Mr Robeet Stewart, then filling 
the chair of the professorship of Natural Philosophy. This 
is the only account of a privation similar to that of the 
Cheshire boy, which has come to my knowledge ; and I 
regret not being yet able to find any narrative of the man's 
habits on record. In the possession, however, of Gilbert 
Innes, Esq. of Stow, the gentleman to whom the Society 
has been indebted for this information, there are some 
exquisite specimens of penmanship, accomplished by this 
German, with the stumps of the ossa humeri alone. With 
a pen he has very minutely drawn the plan of an air-pump, 
the solar and lunar systems, and the anatomy of the ear 
and eye. These sketches, being all contained in the same 
sheet of paper, have their vacant places supplied with seve- 
ral apposite Greek and Latin quotations, most beautifully 
written ; and the whole being surrounded with an elegant 
border, executed likewise with a pen. Another production 
of penmanship, which is on vellum, comprises the Ten 
Commandments, the Creed, and the Lord's Prayer, writ- 
ten in such fine and diminutive characters, as not to be 
read without the aid of a powerful magnifying glass. These 
are, as in the other specimen, included within a very deli- 
cately sketched margin. 
But to return from this digression to Mark Yarwood.-^ 
When I was in Cheshire, his schoolmaster, in a conver- 
sation which I had with him relative to the views of life 
that might be intended for his pupil, conceived that he 
would scarcely be able to undertake the care of some vil- 
