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’ peared pretty equal, though they gradu- 
ally diminifhed as they approached the 
ends of the fingers and toes, where they 
difappeared. 
At his birth he was like other children ; 
but in eight or nine weeks, his fkin turned 
yellow, then blackith, and foon after thefe 
protuberances came on. When I faw him, 
they were fhedding off in feveral places, 
and young ones, of a paler colour, fucceed- 
ing in their room 5 which, he told me, 
happens annually, in fome of the winter 
months; and then he takes away fome 
blood, to prevent a ficknefs that otherwife 
attends their falling off. At other times 
they incommode him very little, except by 
the preffure of his clothes upon them, when 
they come to their full growth. He has 
had the fmall-pox, and has twice been fa- 
iivated, in hopes of clearing his fkin of this 
diftemper; and, during his ficknefs in the 
fmall-pox, and thefe operations, his fkin 
became white and fmooth like other peo- 
ple’s, the roughnefs falling entirely off; but, 
on his recovery, it came again as before. 
His ftate of health has otherwife been very 
good. 
But the rnoft extraordinary circumffance 
is, that this man has had fix children, all 
with the fame rugged covering as himfelf : 
the firft appearance whereof in them, as 
well as in himfelf, came on in about nine 
weeks after their birth. One of them only 
is now living, a pretty boy of eight years 
old, who is in the fame condition exa&ly 
.as his father, which is needlefs to repeat. 
He alfo has had the fmall-pox, and during 
that time was free from his diforder. The 
figure of the hand, expreffed in this plate, 
was taken after nature from the fon. I 
have fliewn the palm of the hand, think- 
ing that mod: expredive; as alfo to vary 
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dehaut', toute la furf ace paroijjoit en general 
ajjez unie , quoiqu elles allaffent graduelle - 
ment en diminuant y a mefure qu elles ap- 
prochoient du bout des doigts et des orteils y 
ou elks dijparoijfoient entierement . 
Quand cet homme ndquit y il paroijjoit com - 
me un autre enfant ; mats au bout de huit ou 
neuf femawes y fa peau devint jaune y enfuite 
noirdtre y et bientot apres ces excrefcences pa - 
rurent. Lorfque je le vis y elles tomboient en 
plufieurs endroits y ou elles etoient remplacees 
par de nouvelles d y une couleur plus claire : 
il me dit que cela lui arrivoit tous les ans en 
hiver ; alors il eft oblige de fe faire faigner 
pour prevenir une indifpofttion quil auroit 
en mime temps y si l n ufoit pas de cette 
precaution : il n en eft prefque point incom- 
mode dans les autres faifons, ft ce ti eft par 
la preftion de fes babits y lors qu elles font 
par venues d leur hauteur ordinaire. Il a 
eu la petite verole , et il a fubi deux fois la 
fahvation y dans /’ efperance de fe delivrer de 
ce feau. Pendant quil fubit ces opera - 
tions y et quil fut malade de la petite verole y 
ces excrefcences tomherent entierement , et fa 
peau devint blanche et imie y comme celle cfun 
autre homme ; mais des qu il commemqa a fe 
bien porter , elles revinrent comjne aupara- 
vant ; hors cela y il a toujours joui d' une 
parfaite fante. 
Mais la circonftance la plus extraordinaire , 
c eft que cet homme a eu fix enj ants , tous at - 
taques de la me me maladie y et en qid les pre- 
miers fymptomes sen font manifeftes y tout 
dememe , environ neuf femaines apres leur 
naiftance. 11 n en refte quun de vivant ; 
deft un fort joli petit gar$on y de huit ans y 
qui eft exaUement dans le merne etat que fon 
pere : il a eu aufti la petite verole y et pendant 
ce temps Id il a ete exempt de fa maladie . La 
main reprefentee dans cette planche a ete 
prife du fils dl apres nature: f y fais voir 
la paume de la main y qui m a parti la plus 
expreftive y et aufti pour diverftfier> vu que 
le dejfus de la main paroit dans la figure , 
