M O N STE R, 
bited in raany.ofthe principal cities in Europe. The in¬ 
dividual, named Lazarus Colloredo, was twenty-eight 
years old, well formed, and of the ufual ftature : he had 
a deformed twin-brother hanging by the cheft from the 
lower part of the fix*mum, who had been chriftened by 
the name of Johannes Baptiila. The latter had two arms, 
with three fingers only on each hand, and one imperfefl 
lower extremity; only one leg, the left, which hung down. 
The head was larger than that of Lazarus, but not well 
formed; ip was well covered with hair, but there was no 
beard : the trunk feems, from the figure, to have been 
very imperfefl. The eyes were generally clofed, the 
mouth open, and yielding a conllant flow of faliva. Re- 
fpiration was hardly perceptible: there was a pulfation in 
the cheft. The hands, ears, and lips, could be moved. 
John Baptiila was nourifhed by the food taken by Lazarus. 
(Hiltor. Anatom. 1654. See alfo Zacchias Queftion. Medi¬ 
co-Legal, lib. vii. quell. 9.) The latter author, who was 
chief phyfician in the ecclefiallical Hates, enters into a 
difcuflion whether John Baptiila had a rational foul, which 
he determines in the negative; and hence feems to have 
doubted whether it was right for him to have undergone 
the holy rite of baptifm. Lazarus (fays Bartholin) was 
of a proper ftature, comely in his perl'on, of morals hu¬ 
mane and courteous, with the polite accomplilhments of 
a courtier: he concealed the body of his little brother, 
and preferved it from injury, by covering it with his own 
cloak; fo that a ftranger to his perfon, at firft accofting 
him, would have no fufpicion of the monlter underneath. 
He was commonly in good fpirits, though now and then 
a little dejefled, when thinking on his future fate ; and, 
as he prelaged that the death of his brother would, by the 
confequent putrefaction and llench, be the deltruftion of 
himfelf, he therefore became much more folicitous for 
his brother’s prefervation than his own. We have no 
knowledge of the time of this man’s death, nor does Bar¬ 
tholin even give the date of the year when he faw him; 
but he prefents a figure of him, which has been copied 
into the Gent. Mag. for 1777. 
Ambrofe Pare relates an inltance of a fimilar deferip- 
tion, where another man, with all his parts, excepting 
the head, was attached to an individual forty years old. 
(Lib. xxiii. cap. 3.) Amatus Lufitanus has an example 
in a well-formed boy of fix years old, from wliofe navel 
another imperfect being, without a head, was fufpended. 
(Curat. Medicin. cent. iii. hill. 57.) In the lxxixth volume 
of the Philofophical Tranfaftions, there is an account of 
a handfome and well-made Gentoo boy, of good fenfe 
and fagacity, who has a little brother lufpended by the 
pubes, and confiding of pelvis and lower limbs. He feels 
perfectly what is done to the brother, but cannot move 
the legs and feet, which are cold. 
In the Gentleman’s Magazine for Feb. 1752, we have 
an account of a very remarkable child (for children they 
can hardly be called) borne by the wife of Richard Tong, 
of Hebus, in the parifh of Middleton, near Mancheller, 
in the preceding month. “ They are both females, the 
one perfeCt, the other imperfeCt; the imperfeCt child ad¬ 
heres to the cartilago enfiformi's of the perfeCt child by 
a cartilaginous fubltance four inches in circumference. 
Its body is of a loft flefliy fubftance with little regularity 
of fliape. The right arm has four fingers, but no thumb; 
the left is much lhorter, and has only two fingers ; it has 
no head, neck, nor clavicula; no refpiration ; it has no 
vertebra of the back or loins; the os facrum and os pubis 
imperfectly olnfied; the thighs, legs, and feet, are the 
moll perfeCt parts about it, though the legs have only 
one bone each; all its joints are very rigid and ItifF; it 
has no anus, but pafles off its water in the natural way; 
its fternum is very imperfeCt; it is not fenfible of pain. 
The perfeCt child is a fine one, and likely to live.” How 
long it did live, we are not able to inform our readers. 
It was about three weeks old when the above account, 
and the drawing, (fee fig. 9.) were taken. 
Thefe. are the moll detailed and authentic cafes; re¬ 
707 
ferences to others, both in the human fubjeCl and in 
animals, may be feen in Haller de Monftris, Opera Mi¬ 
nora ; Soemmerring, Abbildung und Befchreibung eini- 
ger Miflgeburton, &c. folio, Mentz, 1791 ; and Regnault, 
Les Monftres, ou les ecarts de la nature; ouvrage qui 
renferme toutes les monftrofites que la nature produit 
foit dans l’efpece humaine, loit parmi les quadrupedes. 
See. en planches coloriees, folio, Paris, 1775. The two 
former of thefe works are replete with references. 
We proceed to notice fiome of the lefs-inconvenient 
kinds of monflrofity; namely, fuch as do not materially 
aifeCt the life or health of the perfons affeCted, but merely 
render them remarkable during their lives. 
Deviations from the accultomed HruClure of the ikin 
are more confpicuous in the coloured than in the white 
races of mankind. One of the moll flunking is the entire 
abfence of colouring matter, conllituting the Albino, 
which was firft noticed in the Negro: this peculiar for¬ 
mation, however, occurs alfo in the white races, and in 
various genera both of mammalia and birds. The in¬ 
dividuals are remarkable, not only for the whitenefs of 
the fkin, but alfo for that of the hair (feathers and fur 
in animals), and rednefs of the eyes. See Albino, vol. i. 
Individuals of the black races are fometimes marked 
by fpots of white, of various fizes and number, without 
any thing like difeafe of the Ikin. This circumftance oc¬ 
curs moll frequently in negroes, and generally begins in 
early infancy 5 the individuals are called fpotted or pie¬ 
bald negroes, in French, negres-pies. Blumenbach has 
deferibed a man of this kind, whom he faw in London ; 
he was fervant to the perfon who kept the animals at 
Exeter Change. He was a young man, perfectly black, 
excepting the umbilical and hypogaltric regions of the 
abdomen, and the middle of the lower limbs, including? 
the knees and neighbouring parts of the thighs and legs, 
which were of a clear and almolt fnowy whitenefs, but 
fpotted with black, like the Ikin of a panther. His hair 
was of two colours; on the middle of the front of the 
head, from the vertex to the forehead, where it ended in 
a lharp point, there was a white fpot, with a yellower 
tinge than thofe on the trunk and legs. The hair cover¬ 
ing this was white, but refembled the reft in other re- 
fpeCls. On comparing the piClure of this man with three 
others (a boy and two girls), he obferves, that the white 
fpots occupied the abdomen and thigh, never appearing 
on the hands and feet, which parts, with the groins, are 
the firft to turn black in the newly-born negroes ; and 
that the arrangements of the white parts was lymme- 
trical. Both the parents of this man, and of the others, 
of whom Blumenbach had colleCled accounts, were en¬ 
tirely black, fo that Buffon’s conjeClure of this variety 
being produced by the cohabitation of a negro with an 
albinefs is groundlefs. Reprefentations of fpotted negroes 
may be feen in Blumenbach’s Abbildungen Naturhifto- 
rifeher Gegenftande, 3d part; and in Buffon, Supplement, 
t. iv. p. 565. tab. 2. See alfo Byrd in Phil. Tranf. vol. xix„ 
p. 781, for an inftance, in which the fpots began in the 
fourth year, and increafed in fize ; and Morgan, in Tran- 
faClions of the Philofophical Society at Philadelphia, t. ii. 
p. 39 2i m . 
In a fmall village in Somerfetlhire, in the year 1759, a. 
girl was born with the hair on her head of two remark¬ 
ably diftinCl colours ; the right fide, from an exaCl paral¬ 
lel line which divided the Ikull into two equal parts, was 
almoft black; but the left fide, from the fame line, vvas 
of a reddifh yellow. As file grew up, the dark hair be¬ 
came of a jet black, exadtly like that of her father; whilft 
the other became of a Itrong carroty red, precifely re- 
fembling that of her mother; and, after the age of pu¬ 
berty, the hair on the privities, and under the arm-pits, 
as well as on her arms and legs, was diverfified in the 
fame manner.; that on the right fide, all the way down, 
being black; whilft that on the left was entirely red. 
The young woman lived till the twenty-eighth year of 
her age, and was reforted to as a great curioiity. 
Another? 
