THE WANT OF I ORE-AEMS AND HAN DS. 461 
lie had recourse to, in order to compensate for his natural 
loss. I accordingly requested the assistance of my intelli- 
gent and respected friend, Mr J ordan, surgeon, and lec- 
turer on anatomy in Manchester, whose obliging and effi- 
cient exertions I have much pleasure in acknowledging. 
He was so struck with the various modes in which the lad 
contrived to remedy the defects of nature, that, for the 
purpose of completing his observations upon them, he ad- 
mitted the boy as an inmate of his house for several days. 
I am thus happy to think, that the case of Mark Yarwood 
will, in the neighbourhood where he resides, meet with 
that attention which science, conjoined with humanity, may 
render of material advantage to the poor lad, in reference 
to the particular profession of life for which he may be in- 
tended. This object, if properly selected, cannot fail to give 
him much farther opportunity of improving his great na- 
tural resources. 
I shall not detain the Society with more observa- 
tions on this remarkable boy, farther than in hoping, that, 
of the importance of recording such instances of organic 
privation, there will be but one opinion. To the truly 
philosophic mind such cases can never fail to be acceptable : 
the physiologist will learn from them the ample means 
which a benevolent Providence has afforded to certain indi- 
viduals, that they may remedy privations from birth, which 
common opinion has considered as irreparable; he will 
learn from such sources of information, that whenever the 
loss, from birth, of any particular organ of the body takes 
place, certain expedients, from the increased exertions of 
other parts of the body, will follow, with all the definite 
certainty which is assigned to a regular cause and effect. 
It is for this reason, that the record of every varied case 
of organic privation inseparably connects itself with the 
natural history of Man. 
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