98 TRICHOLOGIA MAMMALIUM; 
Remarks.—Ductility being one of the essential properties of pile, we are constrained to 
pronounce these either not to be ¢rwe hazrs, or to believe that they have been changed in 
this respect by some fluid with which they have come in contact, most probably the latter, 
for the corroded state of the shaft would render that probable. Buta difficulty still remains, 
that while these specimens, respectively, resemble in some respects the hair of the head and of 
the pubis of the oval-haired man the cy/indrordal shape and deficiency in canal, negatives the 
idea of such an identity with the former and the cylindrical shape with the latter of these 
integuments. 
Or PiLe From THE UrEerus.—lIn the 6th vol. of the West. Jour. of Med. and Surgery, 
p- 217, is an account of the expulsion of a mass of a dark color, from the uterus of a black 
woman; which, upon examination, proved to be pile. It was deposited in the Museum of 
the Medical College of South Carolina, and we are indebted to Dr. Henry R. Frost, of 
Charleston, for a specimen. 
Examination and Description of Wool from the Uterus of a Black Woman, made 10th 
of April, 1849.—Length, 10 inches and 4, eccentrically elliptical ; diameter, greatest, 545 
of an inch, smallest =, of an inch; crisped; color, dark brown, no lustre ; harsh and dry 
to the touch; no button, sheath, nor follicle; shaft, lower extremity quill-shaped, some- 
what blanched and perforated ; in some places encrusted with a whitish cellular substance, 
and in others fractured so as to display the fibres. 
Trial of one inch with the Trichometer. * Bar. 29, Ther. 70, F., Dew-Point 67. 
With 100 grains it stretched 5 of an inch, elasticity entire. 
“300 « as ean « : 
ae A400 i sy ay “s rv “ 
i ROOO YE? pee ae ay “ “ «“ 
(650 “ ce — “ rr “ 
i 700 * 2 ay es “e c 
kg COT - 50 i « minus 
«6 800 ‘ ‘“ 15 i i ts 
“ 850 ee se 20 “ “ &c fs 
es 900 ee ff 25 be “ cs ja 
<_ 950 wo 6 26 ‘ ce “e 14 
7 1,000 ss wv 34 ‘“ “ «c 16 
“1050 « « as é , «dp 
1 Oo Ee “ 49 “ “ “ 22 
& 1,150 oe ee 44 “ce c 28 
oe 1,200 ee Ou 44 ‘ ‘ c 25 
“1,250 “ “ 42 , ie 25 
ce 1,300 ae ft 43 “6 “ ‘ 24 
1-350 7) ‘broke: 
Whence came this pile? Are we to presume that its germ came from one of her 
parents, that it was transported by the cirenlation and absorbed in the placenta by the 
