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IV. Of the PoJiure^MaJier. 
IN the Pall Mall at London, lived one Clark (call'd, The 
Pojlure-Majier) that had fjch an abfolute Command 
of all his Mufdes and Joints, that he can dis-joint almoft 
his whole Body ; fo that heimpos'd on our famous Mul- 
Uns^ who lookt on him in fo miferable a Condition, that 
he would not undertake his Cure : Tho* he was a u cil 
grown Feilow,yet he would appear in all the Deformities 
that can be imagined, as Hunch Back'd, Pot Belly 'd, 
Sharp Breafted ; he dis-jointed his Arms, Shoulders, 
Legs andThighs,that he will appeared as great an Objeft 
of l^ity as any ; and he has often impos'd on the fame 
Company, where he has been juft before, to give him 
Money as a Ciipple; he looking fo much unlike him- 
felf, that they could not know him. I have feen him 
make his Hips ftand out a confiderable way from his 
Loins, and fo high that they feem'd to invade the Place 
of his Back, in which Pofture he has fo large a Belly, as 
tho' one of our Company had one of a confiderable Size, 
yet it feem'd lank compar'd with his: He turns his Face 
into all Shapes, fo that by himfelf he ads all the un- 
couth, demure, odd Faces of a Quaker's Meeting : I 
could not have conceiv'd it pciTible to have done what he 
did, unlefs I had feen it; and I am fenfible how fliort I 
am come to a full Defcription of him : None certainly can 
defcribe what he does, but himfelf. He began Young to 
bring his Body to ic, and there are fevcral InRances of 
PeriOxHS that can move feveral of their Bones out of their 
Joints, ufing themfelves to it from Children. 
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