[Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by George M. Gould]@TWC D-Link bookAnomalies and Curiosities of Medicine CHAPTER IX 202/442
When he saw a grown-up person he became alarmed, but tried to fly at children and bite them.
He rejected cooked meat with disgust, but delighted in raw flesh and bones, putting them under his paws like a dog." The other case occurred at Chupra, in the Presidency of Bengal. In March, 1843, a Hindoo mother went out to help her husband in the field, and while she was cutting rice her little boy was carried off by a wolf.
About a year afterward a wolf, followed by several cubs and a strange, ape-like creature, was seen about ten miles from Chupra.
After a lively chase the nondescript was caught and recognized (by the mark of a burn on his knee) as the Hindoo boy that had disappeared in the rice-field.
This boy would not eat anything but raw flesh, and could never be taught to speak, but expressed his emotions in an inarticulate mutter.
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