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MISS GRAHN, OR BE VERBION. 47
where he died soon after.—His name was Francis Tro-
villou ; of whom Fabritius, in his Chirurgical Obser-
vations, gives the following description:—“ He was of a.
middle stature, a full body, bald, except in the hinder
part of the head, which had a few hairs upon it; his tem-
per was morose, and his demeanour altogether rustic : he
was born in a little village called Mezieres, and bred up in
the woods amongst the charcoal men. About the seventh
year of his age, he began to have a swelling in his forehead ;
so that about the seventeenth year of his age, he had a horn
there as big as a man’s finger end, which afterwards did
admit of that growth and increase, that when he came to be
thirty-five years old, this horn had both the bigness and re-
semblance of a ram’s horn. It grew upon the midst of his
forehead, and then bended backward as far as the coronal
suture, where the other end of it did sometimes so stick in
the skin, that, to avoid much pain, he was constrained to cut
off some part of the end of it: whether this horn had its
roots in the skin or forehead, I know not; but probably
being of that weight and bigness, it grew from the skull
itself; nor am I certain whether this man had any of those
teeth which we call grinders. It was during this man’s
public exposure at Paris, (saith Urstitious) in 1598, that I,
in company with Dr. Jacobus Faeschius, the public Pro-
fessor of Basil, and Mr. Joannes Eckenstenius, did see and
handle this horn.”
An original and circumstantial Account of the late celebrated
Miss Theodora Grahn, commonly called Theodora
de Verdion, Exchange Bivken, Amanuensis, Teacher
qf Languages, &c.; a. Native of Berlin:—Who, ever
since her Residence in England, appeared only in a Man s
flabit.—With her Portrait.
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where he died soon after.—His name was Francis Tro-
villou ; of whom Fabritius, in his Chirurgical Obser-
vations, gives the following description:—“ He was of a.
middle stature, a full body, bald, except in the hinder
part of the head, which had a few hairs upon it; his tem-
per was morose, and his demeanour altogether rustic : he
was born in a little village called Mezieres, and bred up in
the woods amongst the charcoal men. About the seventh
year of his age, he began to have a swelling in his forehead ;
so that about the seventeenth year of his age, he had a horn
there as big as a man’s finger end, which afterwards did
admit of that growth and increase, that when he came to be
thirty-five years old, this horn had both the bigness and re-
semblance of a ram’s horn. It grew upon the midst of his
forehead, and then bended backward as far as the coronal
suture, where the other end of it did sometimes so stick in
the skin, that, to avoid much pain, he was constrained to cut
off some part of the end of it: whether this horn had its
roots in the skin or forehead, I know not; but probably
being of that weight and bigness, it grew from the skull
itself; nor am I certain whether this man had any of those
teeth which we call grinders. It was during this man’s
public exposure at Paris, (saith Urstitious) in 1598, that I,
in company with Dr. Jacobus Faeschius, the public Pro-
fessor of Basil, and Mr. Joannes Eckenstenius, did see and
handle this horn.”
An original and circumstantial Account of the late celebrated
Miss Theodora Grahn, commonly called Theodora
de Verdion, Exchange Bivken, Amanuensis, Teacher
qf Languages, &c.; a. Native of Berlin:—Who, ever
since her Residence in England, appeared only in a Man s
flabit.—With her Portrait.
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