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V, ExtraSi of a Letter from Mr. de l^alle-» 
mont^i^cxoncernifjg a fmall Egg being faired 
within an ordinary one^ tah^n from the Jour- 
nal des Savans of the jth of Jan. i5p5. 
L An Account of one who had horny excrefcen- 
cies or extraordinary large Nails on his Fin^ 
gers and Toes^ by Mr.Locke. 
24 May 1678. 
AT the Hofpital in Paris, called la Charite, I faw a 
young Lad of between Nineteen and Twenty 
years old, who had upon the ends of all his Fingers, 
as it were Horns grew out ; one whereof, upon the 
middle Finger of his right Hand, was 310 grys long, 
and 1^0 grys circumference, of which a good piece 
was broke off in my prefence of above i jo grys long,- 
as al(b a fliorter piece off from the Fore-finger of the 
fame hand, and atiother lefs piece off the annularis of 
the left Hand. He told me he had one formerly on 
his Thumb, mu^h bigger and longer than this of the 
middle Finger before- mentioned, but it was now very 
iliort, having been either taken off, or dropt of , I 
know not whether for on all the reft of his Fin- 
gers, on both his Hands, there were the like : only on 
fome of them they had been taken off by the Chi- 
rurgions fince he came into the Hofpital ; but in 
thole that had not been touched , there w?s a great 
inequality in their length. Some of them beginning 
to fprout much fince the other. The like grew al- 
