Ausführliches Leben und besondere Schiksale eines wilden Knaben von zwölf Jahren der zu Barra einer Schottländischen Insel von zweyen berühmten Aerzten gefangen und auferzogen worden..
Frankfurt und Leipzig : [s.n.],
1759..
The original author is supposedly one "Dr Milsintown", an Edinburgh physician, who records how, in the summer of 1756, whilst on the Hebridean island of Barra, he discovered a feral boy on a beach. Milsintown endeavours, without success, to humanise the boy and turn him into a Christian. He also operated on the boy's cleft palate but the child soon died. Shortly before his death he was baptized and given the name Edward. The text of the work is supposedly translated via French from the original Scots ("even more difficult to understand than English"), but no such source texts have been identified.
Feral children
Germany Frankfurt.
Germany Leipzig.