446 Mr. White on the Natural Hijlory of the Covt. 
two nurfes, in the flower of their age, and fuck 
their breads. 
Foreftus tells us, that a youth at Bologna, of 
twenty-nine years of age, labouring under a 
true marafmus, lived upon the milk of a beau¬ 
tiful young nurfe, of eighteen years of age, who 
lay in the fame bed with him, by which means 
his emaciated body was well redored. In 
both thefe indances, I fuppofe the milk was 
preferved, without the child being permitted 
to fuck. I am informed that goats, flieep, 
and rein deer will give milk freely to the 
hand, without the kid, lamb, and the fawn 
having accefs to them, but they are ru¬ 
minating animals of the fame kind with the 
Cow. 
Upon the whole, I believe we may infer, 
that the property of yielding milk, without the 
young one, or fome adopted animal, in fome 
meafure partaking of it, is confined to that clafs 
of ruminating horned animals who have cloven hoofs , 
four fomachs, long intefines , are furnifhed with 
fuet , and have no foreteeth in the upper jaw. 
That cows, Iheep, goats and deer are of this 
kind, and no others ; and that the Cow has this 
property in a more eminent degree than the 
others, owing to the capaciouinefs of her udder, 
and the fize, form and number of her teats. 
There are other ruminant animals, befides thofe 
I have 
