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Hans Adam, Baron of Oxensteirn, who was born in 1529, that he was renowned for bodily 
strength, and had a beard six feet two inches long! 'T'wo cases are recorded, one of a 
Monk who became blind upon cutting off a long beard, and the other of a Priest, who was 
extremely robust, but who suddenly became sick and weak from cutting his long hair. 
(Dict. de Sci. Med., v. 43, p. 272.) 
In Auverne, in France, they never cut the manes of their horses for fear of diminixhing 
their strength. 
A singular growth of beard on the chins of females; in decline of life, has been referred 
to the same category. (See Blumen’s Inst. Phys., § 660.) Bichatsays that this is a new 
direction of vitality. Gross tells of a female, of 78, the mother of a large family, whose 
chin and lip was covered with a coarse beard, which obliged her to shave once a week. 
(Elem. de Phys. and Anat., 227.) 
Wuen Haire FIRST MAKES ITS APPEARANCE.—The first development of hair, according 
to Valentin, [Entivi Chelangeschichte, p. 275,] is either at the end of the third, or the 
commencement or middle of the fourth month; but others think that it is not till the 
seventh month.* Bichat says that, “during the first months of the foetus, there is no 
hair upon the still gelatinous skin. That it is at the time of the production of the fibrous 
tissues that you perceive, upon the head, a fine down, indicative of the hair which is to 
succeed. This down,” he says, “is whitish, and is hidden ina greasy and unctuous sub- 
stance, which covers the skin. Shortly after it becomes colored; but palely so until 
birth.” 
Tue First APPEARANCE OF Hair on tHE Possum.—Prof. Charles Meigs, M. D., of this 
city, watched the progress of development of a brood of possums, and there was no 
appearance of hair until the seventy-second day after they were first discovered in the 
pouch of their mother. (MS.)t 
Some [hybrid] lambs are provided, at birth, with haz, which is soft, short and pointed, 
and which falls out, leaving the place for wool. (Fleishman.) 
We have obtained, through the kindness of the Hon. Jonathan Roberts, of Montgomery 
county, Pa., some of this lamb’s hair. In Mr. Roberts’ note, he says, some varieties of 
stock show little or no signs of hair in their first stages—such as the Merinos, for the most 
part, and ina good degree so are the Southdowns, on which we now pretty much run. 
And so of the Dishleys. We have had them sometimes very hairy, and there are instances 
where it never assumes the perfect state of woolly fibres. (MS.) . 
OF THE THREE VARIETIES OF THE Harr of THE Heap or Man.—All organized beings 
have their periods or ages of existence. In general the form is at first simple, and becomes 
* We have, in our collection, a foetus of three months, upon which there is nota single hair; and we have a specimen of 
a portion of a scalp of another of five months, upon which there is hair. 
+ With birds, towards the end of the ninth day of incubation, on the skin of the embryo are seen little pores, which are 
the openings of capsules destined to secrete feathers, which begin to show themselyes at the end of the tenth day, and to 
cover the body in the course of twenty-four hours. (Elem. de Zool., 215.) 
The cub Lion has no mane when born: 
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