Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-06-23

A curious account has recently been publish
ed, Of patient in MiddleseX Hospital, eng
who has Supernumerary number or hngers
and toes, and the peculiarly is stated to be he
reditary Several such instances, ancient and
modern, are collected in an extract which we
publish this morning from "Lawrence's Lee
lures" Appended to the extract is an equally
curious account of the English family of 'por-
cupine men, singular organic peculiarly, to
which parallel has boen found in our days, if
we credit paragraph from foreign paper,
which has been republished in our journals.
Baltimore american.
"Pliny has mentioned examples of six finger
ed persons among the Romans: such individuals
received the additional name OF sedigitus or Sc
dieita. c.. Horatius had two daughters with
this REGULARITY Reaumur speaks of family
in which similar structure existed for three ge"
nerationS being transmitted both in the male
and female lines. Mr.. Carlisle has recorded the
particulars of family, in which he traced SUI
pernumerary toes and fingers four genera
tons. They were introduced by female who
had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on
each foot. From her marriage with man ma
turally formed were produced ten children with
a supernumerary member on each limb; and
an eleventh, in which the regularity existed in
both feet and one hand, the other hand being
naturally formed. The latter married a man of
the ordinary formation; they had four children,
of which three had one or two limbs natural,
and the rest with the supernumerary parts, while
the fourth had six fingers on each hand, and as
many toes on each foot
The latter married woman naturally form
ed. and had issue by her eight children, four with
the usual structure, and the same number with
a supernumerary number of fingers or toes.
Two of them were twins, OF which one was natu-
rally formed, and the other ix-fngered and six
toed.
\,o.hor rap,orl ohio evarnle Of the OcclIr-
renee of singular organic peculiarly, and OF
it, hereditary transmission, is afforded by the
ENGLISH family of porcupne men, who have
derived that name from the greater part OF the
body being covered by hard dark-colored ex-
crescences Of a horny nature. The whole sur
face, excepting the head and the face, the
Mains and soles, is occupied by this unnatural
kind of integulnenL The first account Of this
family is found in the Philosophical TRANSACT
fions. No. 424, and consists of the description OF
a bow named Edward Lambert, fourteen years
old. born in Suffolk, and exhibited to the Royal
Society in 1871, by Mr.. Machin, one of the Sc
cretaries.
natural integumunt that exactly resemDled it
some compared it to the bark of tree; 9th
ers thought it looked like seal skin; others like
the skin of an elephant or the skin about the
lnos of a rhinoCeros; and some tooil it 70 De
like great wart, or number OF warts uniting
and overspeadng the whole body; me orst
lv narts, which were chiefly about the belly and
dts looked and rustled like the bristles or
nniIls ola hedgehog; shorn off within an inch of
tbe skim These productions were hard, cal
inus 'N and insensiblc. Other children of the
same same parents were naturally formed
IN q SUBSEQUENT account presented to the So
IN. IN ..a,,tv7 f,ur wears afterwards by Mr. II.
B fiasy and illustrated with figure otthe honds
He pnnsct and w sa0y 5a
good health every thing god dI he derived no in
Convenience eoueis from the state Of his skin, excep,
that It would crack and bleed after very hard
work He had been shown in LONDON .%S under
the G M B pGrsupns most nearly sS to
,sa shy an innumerable company of warts,
Of dark brown color, and cylindrical If Fl.
CURE rising to like height Can inch, at their III
full size) and growing as close as possible 10
one another, but so stiff and elastic, that "heh