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CHAP. II. PL A. ai2. 
The Hand of a Boy with a Diftem- Main cT un petit Garmon, qui avoit 
pered Skin , and a Branch of the uneMaladie delaPeau. Branche 
Common Service-Tree. de Cormier Commun, 
T N the year 1731, a Boy was fhewn 
-■* before the Royal Society of London, 
having a Diflempered Skin, of a kind 
mentioned by no author: an account 
whereof was printed in the Philofophical 
Tranfadtions, N°. 424, together with a 
figure of one of his hands, &c. with 
explanations. 
In the year 1755, the fame perfon was 
fhewn again, in London, by the name of 
the Porcupine Man , with a fon of his in 
the fame condition. I then faw them both, 
and examined them very carefully. The 
father, whofe name is Edward Lambert, 
was born at Brandon, in Suffolk, and is 
now about forty years of age; a good- 
looking well-fhaped man, of a florid com- 
plexion, and, when his body and hands 
were hid, feemed nothing different from 
other people; but he was covered with 
innumerable flender protuberances of a 
wart-like appearance, fome flattifh at top, 
others concave, fome pointed like cones, 
others irregular, Handing pretty, clofe to- 
gether like briilles in a brufh, and fuppofed 
to be a prolongation of the nervous papilla, 
grown to the thicknefs of common twine- 
packthread, which formed a rugged co- 
vering all over him, except his face and 
head, the palms of his hands, the infldes 
and tips of his fingers; and the foies of his 
feet, which alone were free. Their co- 
lour was dark brown, or rufly black; and 
they were fo fliflf and elaftic, that a hand 
drawn over them produced a ru filing noife: 
in fome places they were more than half 
an inch long; and the general furface ap- 
fit VOir d i a Societe Roy ale de Lon- 
^ dr es, en 1731, un petit Garmon, qui 
avoit une Maladie de la Peau et une efipece , 
dont aucun auteur n a fait mention , et dont * 
on a publie une relation dam les. Tranfadlions 
Philofophiques , N°. 424, d la quelle on a 
ajoute la figure d* me de fes maim , 6cc. avec: 
des explications. 
On fit encore voir la mime perfonne a 
Londres , en 1755, fous le nom de t homme 
porc-epic , avec un de fes fils , qui etoit dans 
le me me e'tat. Je les vis dlors tom deux et les 
examinai avec beaucoup de Join , Le pere , , 
qui s’ appelloit Edouard Lambert , etoit natif 
de Brandon , dans la province de Suffolk , et 
peut avoir d prefent environ quarante ans* 
C efi un homme de bonne mine , bienfait , ef 
d’ un temt vif : il paroiffoit ne differ er en ■ 
rien des autres homme s, quand on ne lui 
voyoit ni le corps , ni les mains . Car ex- 
cept e le vifageet la fete , les paumes des mains , 
le dedans et le bout des doigfs , et les plenties 
des pieds, il etoit tout convert d' un nombre 
infini de menues excrefcences, affez fembla- 
bles d des verrues, quelques unes applaties 
vers le haut , d' autres concaves , d' autres 
pointues en forme de cone , et $ autres irrd 
gulieres , affez ferries , a peu pres comme les 
fiyes de fanglier dans une broffe, et fuppofees 
etre un alongement des mamelons de la peau , 
parvenus d la groffeur, d' une menue ficelle 
ordinaire ; ce qui formoit une couverture fort 
rude. Ces excrefcences etoient d' un brun - 
fond, ou d' un noir rouffedtre, fi.roides et fi 
elafiiques, qu. en paffani la main d.effus> dies 
faifoient un bruit confidirable : dies , etoient 
en quelques endroits , de plus d'un demi ponce e 
