106 TRICHOLOGIA MAMMALIUM: 
Goldsmith says that it is observable among quadrupeds, as well as among the human 
species itself, that a thin, sparing diet is apt to produce hair; children that have been 
ill-fed, famished dogs and horses are more hairy than others whose food has been more 
plentiful.[!] (Nat. Hist. of Man, 2 v., p. 106.) 
The Hindoos undertake to enumerate the hairs upou one of our species. A woman who, 
upon the death of her husband, (says Unegira,) ascends the burning pile along with’ him, 
is exalted to heaven for as many years as there are hairs on the human body, that 
is, 35,000,000. 
Or Hair Growine In 'Turrs.—Hairs (which are seen upon the foetus) are rarely isolated, 
but are found disposed of, sometimes in duplicates, sometimes in triplicates, and at others 
in quadruplicates, or even quintubles. (Eschricht in Muller, Arch., 1837, p. 43.) And 
it is very probable that the same arrangement may exist in regard to the hair of the lower 
animals ; for while examining the skin of a Russian Dog, tanned with the hair on, with 
another object in view, we observed that the follicles were in triplicates. We have also 
observed that the fur of the Mole grows in tufts, and so does the wool of the Bushman boy, 
as has been noticed. (See post, wool staple.) And it is also beautifully shown in the skin 
of the Platyphus Ornithorinchus. (See Chapter I.)* 
We have, in our cabinet, a specimen of hair which grew in tufts upon a gentleman’s 
shoulder. 
OF THE RAPID GROWTH oF PiLe.—Withof found that the beard grows a line in a week, 
or 4 inches in a year, which, in a life of fifty years, would make upwards of 16 feet of 
beard. 
We found the beard to grow, upon a male adult of 60, in good health, ,45 of an inch in 
24 hours. 
Absalom polled his hair once a year, “ because it was heavy upon him,” and it weighed 
200 shekels, after the king’s weight.t 
Hair is said to grow more rapidly in swmmer than in winter. (Dict. Des. Sci. Med., 
v. 43, p. 496.) Sed quere? 
The fur upon the abdomen of amphibious fur-bearing animals is the finest, and that on 
the back is the coarsest. With dand fur-bearing animals, it is the very reverse. 
The finest wool is on the back of the sheep, and is called “picklock.” 
The specimens of Saxony wool, presented to us by the King of Saxony, represent the 
filaments from the shoulders, the back, under the belly, the tail and the legs 
the specimens you may form an opinion of the whole fleece. 
so that from 
OF THE REGENERATION oF Piie.—Of the fall and regeneration of hair in the foetus, we 
* Hair of the limbs of the body of some of the Papuans, of Darnly Island, grow in small tufts. (Latham, Nat. Hist. of 
Var., &c., 215.) 
+ Shekel, ancient Hebrew weight, 0.032086 pounds. (Alexander.) 
