CYCLOPEDIA

OF

WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES

OF

NATURE AND ART, SCIENCE AND LITERATURE;

REPRESENTING

NATURAL

ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, PHRENOLOGY, ASTRONOMY, BOTANY, GEOLOGY,
HISTORY, ICHTHYOLOGY, MYTHOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY, METEOROLOGY,
MINERALOGY, CHEMISTRY, ZOOLOGY, ENTOMOLOGY, BIOGRAPHY, ETC.;

ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES, IN ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE,

COMPRISING CORRECT ACCOUNTS OF THE MOST

Wonderful Freaks of Nature and Arts of Man.

WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS AND AMUSING

RECREATIONS.

By I. PLATT, D. D.

ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER ONE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS,

Volume I.

NEW YORK:

HURST & COMPANY,

122 NASSAU STREET,

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER L

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING MAN.

Human Body-The Countenance-The Eye-The Ear-The Heart-The Circulation

the Blood-Respiration - The Hair of the Head-The Beard-Women with

Beards Sneezing..

CHAPTER II.

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING MAN-(Continued).

........

Difference between the Sexes-Comparative Number of the Sexes at a Birth-Ext:

ordinary Instances of Rapid Growth-Daniel Lambert-Giants-Dwarfs-Kimo.

Curious Account of the Abderites-Account of a Country in which the Inhabita:

reside in Trees.

CHAPTER III.

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING MAN-(Continued).

Astonishing Acquisitions made by Blind Persons-Wonderful Performances of a re-

male, blind almost from Infancy-Wonderful Instances of Adroitness of Persons

born defective in their Limbs-Curious Account of Incapacity of distinguishing

Colors-Ventriloquism-Sword-Swallowing-Indian Jugglers..

CHAPTER IV.

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING MAN-(Continued).

Instances of Extraordinary Fasting-Wonders of Abstinence-Sleep-walking-Sleep-

ing Woman of Dunninald-Instances of Extraordinary Dreams-Poetical, Gram-

matical, and Scientific Deaths-Anthropophagi, or Men-eaters-Account of a Wild

Man.

CHAPTER V.

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING MAN-(Continued).

Striking Instances of Integrity-Shocking Instances of Ingratitude-Extraordinary

Instances of Honour-Surprising Effects of Anger--Remarkable Effects of Fright,

or Terror-Notable Instance of the Power of Conscience....

CHAPTER VI.

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CURIOSITIES RESPECTING MAN-(Continued).

Remarkable Instance of Memory-Surprising Instance of Skill in Numbers-Extraor

dinary Arithmetical Powers of a Child-Curious Instance of Mathematical Talen

-Stone-eater-Poison-eater-Bletonism-Longevity..

CHAPTER VII.

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING MAN-(Continued).

Combustion of the Human Body, produced by the long immoderate Use of Spirituons

Liquors. From the “Journal de Physique,' Pluviose, Year 8: written by Pierre

Aime Lair

CHAPTER VIII.

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING MAN- -(Continued).

John Elwes-Daniel Dancer-Henry Wolby-John Henley-Simon Brown, and his Ca

rions Dedication to Queen Carolina-Edward Wortley Montague-Blaise Pascal-

Old Parr-George Psalmanazar-John Case--John Lewis Cardiac-John Smeaton-

George Morland-Henry Christian Heinecken-Thomas Topham-Zenxis..