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ACCOUNT OF NATHANIEL HULME. 221
posture of sleep, whose skin being tanned as it were, by
moor-water, preserved his shape entirely ; but his flesh
and most of his bones were consumed.
Extraordinary account of a Man with Horns on his
Fingers and Toes.
JL here lived at Bolton, eight miles from Manchester, one
Nathaniel Hulme, aged about seventeen, who had the
small-pox when he was about eight years of age, soon after
which he had a stubborn itch, almost to a degree of le-
prosy, with which his fingers and thumb nails began to
grow thick, and by degrees to harden into horns, which
grew in seven or eight months an inch long, some almost
two inches, and others much longer. It began in the fore-
finger of his left hand, and so came to all the rest of that
hand, which had as many horns as fingers and thumbs, all
which horns in about a twelvemonth fell off by degrees,
that which grew first falling off first without any pain, un-
less when cut off as they were at the beginning: there
were likewise large cpiicks or roots under the nails. By
degrees they came on the thumb and then on the fingers
of the right hand, which grew to the same length with
the former in about a year’s time and then fell off, he
having shed them five or six times ; one of the horns that
grew on the ring finger of the right hand was three
inches long ; after they had all come off the left hand they
grew again. The one on his little finger was two inches
long, and Dr. Richard Wroe had one or two of them by
him. About two years after the Dr. saw him frequently,
when the horns still continued to grow and fall off as
usual; he had horns on every toe, but he kept them cut,
that he might be able to wear shoes, and he was so over-
spread with the leprosy that the Dr. thought he could not
live long.
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posture of sleep, whose skin being tanned as it were, by
moor-water, preserved his shape entirely ; but his flesh
and most of his bones were consumed.
Extraordinary account of a Man with Horns on his
Fingers and Toes.
JL here lived at Bolton, eight miles from Manchester, one
Nathaniel Hulme, aged about seventeen, who had the
small-pox when he was about eight years of age, soon after
which he had a stubborn itch, almost to a degree of le-
prosy, with which his fingers and thumb nails began to
grow thick, and by degrees to harden into horns, which
grew in seven or eight months an inch long, some almost
two inches, and others much longer. It began in the fore-
finger of his left hand, and so came to all the rest of that
hand, which had as many horns as fingers and thumbs, all
which horns in about a twelvemonth fell off by degrees,
that which grew first falling off first without any pain, un-
less when cut off as they were at the beginning: there
were likewise large cpiicks or roots under the nails. By
degrees they came on the thumb and then on the fingers
of the right hand, which grew to the same length with
the former in about a year’s time and then fell off, he
having shed them five or six times ; one of the horns that
grew on the ring finger of the right hand was three
inches long ; after they had all come off the left hand they
grew again. The one on his little finger was two inches
long, and Dr. Richard Wroe had one or two of them by
him. About two years after the Dr. saw him frequently,
when the horns still continued to grow and fall off as
usual; he had horns on every toe, but he kept them cut,
that he might be able to wear shoes, and he was so over-
spread with the leprosy that the Dr. thought he could not
live long.
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