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I faw a man, thirty years of age, and yet of the 
fize of a boy feven years old, who was fitting on a 
couch leaf, with his head (which indeed was quite 
out ot fize) inclined on the right fide, and refiing on 
a pillow j which, when he wanted to move, he 1 up- 
ported with his hands, as it lay on a very fmall neck. 
This man had enjoyed a good health till he was fix 
years old; he then had a diarrhoea, which lafied nine 
months, and, upon its flopping, his lower extremities 
were feized with the palfy, and loft their motion, but 
their feeling remained. From that time his head 
increafed yearly, together with his face, nofe, ears, 
eyes, mouth, &c. but the remainder of his body did 
not grow at all. The circumference of his fcalp 
meafured thirty feven inches, and eight lines, Englifh 
meafure. The length of his face was twelve inches 
and three lines. Thefe meafures were taken by the 
faid princefs and feveral of her attendants. This man 
eats greedily, fleeps well, but difcharges his faces 
and his urine involuntarily. The ftrength which he 
has in his hands is very furprizing, being luch, that 
it is difficult for any perfon to get Ioofe from him, 
when once he holds faft. He is befides quick as to 
his underftanding, he talks, and has a good memory ; 
feldom or never forgetting what he may have read 
in books. 
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