the Human Kind and other Animals. 271 



1. Epistaxis, 



2. Hamorrlioides, and 



3. Menorrhagia. 



The first of these diseases is, indeed, put down with 

 the mark of doubt ; and I have somewhere seen it ob- 

 served, that man is the only animal, to whom a bleeding 

 at the Nose, independently of external violence, is natu- 

 ral. But this is not the case. Haemorrhages from the 

 nose, as well as from other parts of the body, have been 

 observed to occur in the febrile epizootick diseases of 

 the United- States; as I shall show, with the proper au- 

 thorities, in my memoir on the fever of horses. 



As to Hasmorrhoidal affections, they are, cer- 

 tainly, not peculiar to the human kind. The dog, with 

 whom costiveness is a common disease, is subject to 

 this troublesome affection of the rectum. This is a 

 fact which cannot be less familiar to hundreds of others 

 (especially to sportsmen) than it is to myself. 



My own observations have also satisfied me, that the 

 common North- American Opossum (my Didelphis 

 Woapink*) is not exempted from a morbid state of 

 haemorrhage from the uterus. It is highly probable, 

 that the same thing occurs in the Kanguroof, and 



♦ For some account of the generation, &c, of the opossum, I beg 

 leave to refer the reader to my paper entitled " Facts, Observations, 

 and Conjectures, relative to the Generation of the Opossum of 

 North-America." Philadelphia: 1806 



(■ Macropus major of Or Shaw 



