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Another well-known yet remarkable inftance was the 
cafe of a man who a few years fince kept a public-houfe 
in Tooley-ftreet, Southwark. His father was a white man, 
belonging to one of the Weft-India packets; and his 
mother was a negro girl, whom he brought with him to 
London, and in the courfe of the enfuing year fire was 
delivered of a fon, the whole right fide of which was 
white like the father; but the whole of the left fide was 
black like the mother. As he grew up, this vifible dif- 
tinftion became more ftrongly marked ; and, during the 
time he kept the above public-houfe in Tooley-ftreet, he 
was reforted to by an immenfe concourfe of people, who 
flocked there to fpend their mite, in order to be fatisfied 
that fo great a curiofity really exifted. The whole of his 
body appeared to be interfered by an exa6t parallel line. 
The hair on the right fide was long and brown, like that 
of the father; and half the free, neck, and body, on the 
right fide, were white; while the correfponding part on 
the left fide were black, like that of the mother, with 
half the hair on the head black and woolly, like that of a 
true negro. 
A ftill more curious and ftriking example is the cafe of 
Mr. John Clark, of Prefcot-flreet, Goodman’s-fields. His 
father was a native of Africa, who, by dint of good for¬ 
tune, had amaffed a confiderable fum of money, and 
fettled in London. He married a healthy young woman, 
a native of Devonfhire, who had been fome time his fer- 
vant. By her he had two Ions and three daughters, who 
were mulattoes, except the eldeft fon, who was the firft 
born, and the perfon above alluded to. From the head 
to the navel, all round his body, he was remarkably fair, 
had a fine ikin, handfome round features, light-brown 
hair, and fanguine complexion, like his mother; but 
from the navel downwards he was completely black, ex- 
adfly like the father. At the age of thirty he married ; 
and for about three months he had the addrefs to conceal 
this deformity of colour from the knowledge of his wife, 
by wearing fiefh-coloured filk drawers and ftockings, 
which he pretended were lined with flannel to keep off 
the rheumatifm. Such a Angularity, however, could not 
be long concealed from a wife, efpecialiy as it mud have 
been previoufly known to many other perfons. But th.e 
diicovery proved fatal to her—fhe Ihrieked out vehement¬ 
ly, and fainted away: and the fudden furprife, added to 
mortification and terror of mind, had fo powerful an ef¬ 
fect, that fhe died in convulfions. Sibly's KeyJ.oPh.yfic. 
1 Thofe fpots, in which the epidermis is perfectly healthy, 
and which are diftinguifhable from the reft of the Ikin only 
by their colour, are not to be confounded with difeafes 
of the organ, where the cuticle becomes fcaly or branny, 
which are frequent in fome of the black races. Nor are 
they peculiar to the dark-coloured races. Blumenbach 
has feen two infiances in Germans, one of a youth, and 
the ether of a man fixty years old. They both had a 
rather tawny (kin, marked here and there with various- 
fized fpots of the cleareft white. They appeared firft 
in the former in infancy, and in the latter at the age of 
manhood. 
In the Englifh family of the porcupine-men, a very An¬ 
gular ftrudture of the (kin is obferved. At nine weeks 
after birth, this remarkable peculiarity firft began to fhow 
itfelf. The (kin of the whole body, except the head and 
face, the palms and foies, is covered by hard wart-like 
prominences. It w'as not eafy to think of any fort of 
(kin, or natural integument, that exactly reiembled it; 
fome compared it to the bark of a tree; others thought 
it looked like feal-lkin ; others like the hide of the ele¬ 
phant, or the Ikin about the legs of the rhinoceros; and 
fome took it to be like a large wart, ora number of warts 
uniting and overfpreading the whole body. T he briftly 
parts, which were chiefly about the belly and flanks, 
looked and ruftled like the brillles or quills of a hedge¬ 
hog, (horn off within an inch of the lkin. The perion 
enjoyed good health ; every thing connected with his ex¬ 
cretions was naturalj lie derived no inconvenience from 
the ftate of his lkin, except that it would crack and bleed 
after very hard work. (Phil. Tranf. N° 424. with views of 
the ikin.) In a fubfequent account, after an interval of 
twenty-four years, the man is laid to continue the fame. 
The covering feemed moft nearly to refemble an innu¬ 
merable company of warts, of a dark brown colour, and 
a cylindrical figure, riling to a like height (an inch at 
their full fize), and growing as clofe as poflible to one 
another; but fo ftiff and elaftic, that, when the hand is 
drawn over them, they make a ruffling noife. They are 
filed annually in the autumn or winter months, and fuc- 
ceeded by young ones of a paler brown. The perfon had 
the fmali-pox, and had been falivated twice; the tuber¬ 
cles difappeared on thefe occafions, but were reproduced. 
The health continued good. He had fix children with 
the fame peculiarity, beginning, as in himfelf, about nine 
weeks after birth. One only of thefe furvived, and was 
eight years old when the account was written. Phil L 
Tranf. xlix. 21. with a figure of the hand; alio Edwards's 
Gleanings of Nat. Hi ft. vol. v. pi. 212. 
There is an inftance fomewhat analogous recorded, of 
a man whofe ikin was covered in various places with warts 
of different fize and form. See Hiftoria Pafhologica fin- 
gularis Cutis turpitudinis, J. G. Rheinhardi viri 50 anno* 
rum. Lipf. 1793, foi. 
The formation of hard fubftances, defcribed under the 
name of horns, on the human head, is not a very uncom¬ 
mon occurrence. Thefe certainly cannot be regarded in 
the fame point of view with the varieties in formation of 
different parts, as they are not originally formed; and 
they may be clafled rather with the productions of difeafe, 
although they are free from pain, and attended with no 
inconvenience when undifturbed. The term horn is ap¬ 
plied to them from their hardnefs and colour; for they 
bear no refemblance in their development and growth 
to the parts of animals called horns. Yet productions 
from the ikin, refembling true horns, have been feen in 
animals. A iheep, about four years old, had a large horn, 
three feet long, growing on its flank. It had no connec¬ 
tion with bone, and appeared to be only attached to the 
external ikin. It dropped off in confequence of its weight 
having produced ulceration in the loft parts to which it 
adhered. On examining it, there was a fleihy fubftance, 
feven inches long, of a fibrous texture, filling up the ca¬ 
vity on which the horn had been formed. Phil. Tranf 
vol. Ixxxi. In the fame work, vol. xlix. p. 183, is another 
example of a very regularly-ihaped horn of 26lbs. in 
weight, growing from the neck of a iheep. 
The growths, which have been called horns, in the hu¬ 
man iubjeft, have taken place from eneyfted tumours, 
which have burft, and diicharged a thick gritty fluid ; 
the cyfts have then collapfed, and the new fubftance has 
gradually grown from the bottom. It is at firft pliable, 
and afterwards .aflume's nearly the colour and hardnefs of 
horn. The lining of theie cyfts approaches to the nature 
of cuticle, and hair has fometimes been found among 
their contents. The horn then is limply a fecretion of 
cuticular fubftance from the furface of the cyft, becoming 
dry and hard in confequence of its expofure. Such horns 
may be produced in any iituation of the body. In tire 
cafe of a middle-aged woman related by Mr. Home, a 
moveable tumour grew on the fide of the head, in the 
courfe of four or five years, to the fize of a pullet’s egg, 
when it burft, and difeharged a thick gritty fluid. A 
fmall foft fubftance of a reddiih colour was produced from 
the centre of the tumour; it increafed in length and 
thickneis, and continued pliable for about three months, 
when it firft began to put on a horny appearance. It at¬ 
tained the length of five inches, being about one inch in 
circumference at the ends, and rather lefs in the middle. 
It was curied, like a ram’s horn, and reiembled iijnglafs 
in colour. Three others formed iucceifively in this indi¬ 
vidual. Bartholin, in his epiftles, mentions a woman 
who had a tumour under the fcalp, covering the tempo¬ 
ral mtiicle. Tllis gradually enlarged, and a horn grew 
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