282 Facts relative to the Diseases common to 



charge. For these assertions I do believe there is some 

 foundation. — It will, indeed, be a most extraordinary 

 fact, if among the great number of animals which com- 

 pose the class of mammalia, there is only a solitary 

 species subject to the Jluxus menstruus. — But the in- 

 quisitive researches of naturalists cannot fail, in time, 

 to conduct us to more certainty relative to this wonder- 

 ful function of the animal uterus. 



Cancer is put down with the mark of doubt. Nor 

 have I any facts to prove, that man is not the only ani- 

 mal who is afflicted with this dreadful, and generally in- 

 curable, disease. I confess, however, that I gready in- 

 cline to the belief, that some of the mammalia, besides 

 man, are subject to cancerous or cancer-like affections. 

 We have seen, that scrophula, not unallied to cancer, 

 is a disease of animals : and, besides scrophula, many 

 of the mammalia are subject to ulcerations of a trouble- 

 some, and even dangerous kind. 



Clavus is the next disease mentioned by the pro- 

 fessor. I have nothing to say on this head : 



Nor concerning Hernia congenita, which, however, 

 is noted with the mark of doubt. 



Of the Prolapsus of the inverted urinary bladder, I 

 know nothing, from my own observation ; and but lit- 



tlie Hyrax Capensia of Gqaelin (Cavia Capensis of Pallas): Cape 

 Cavy of Mr. Pennant. — A Voyage to the Cape of Good-Hope, &c. 

 &c. By Andrew Sparrman, M. D. Vol, I. p. 309. London: 1785 

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