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XVIII. Fart of a Letter from Mrs . — — 
to Sir John Shadwell, Kn *. M. Z). Fellow 
of the Royal College o/Phyficians, London, 
concerning the extraordinary Skeleton men* 
tioned in the Tw preceding Fapers, 
r | ^ H E Man died in the County of Corke , 20 
Miles from that City : When I was there, 
he was Steward to Mr. dllworth , his Name Clark ; 
the Account I am going to give, I had from the Lady 
he lived with. Twenty Years before he died, he got 
a violent Fever, by being very warm, and fleeping on- 
the Grafs, moft Part of a Night. After he recovered 
from that Diforder, he was never free from great 
Pains in his Bones, and in Four Years loft the Ufe of 
all his Limbs, even the moving his Jaws, that they 
were obliged to take out many of his Teeth, in the 
Front of his Mouth, to give him Suftenance, Spoon- 
meats, and Ale, on which he lived 16 Years : In thofe 
Years he could neither fit or lie down, but flept in a 
Sentry-box, with a fmall Board which ran in a Groove, 
and againft that he leaned his Stomach : He could 
never move his Head, by a Bone that grew from his 
Scull to his Back-bone. I wrote you before, that he 
flept in the Box, but fhould have let you know, he 
did not live in it; for whenever the Weather would 
permit, he got into the Air: He could move him- 
felf on even Ground, with a little kind of Jump, 
and ftand many Hours in the Garden, leaning his Back 
againft a Tree, or Wall : They think his moving with 
that 
