130 DARWINISM STATED BY DARWIN HIMSELF. 



microscope, or by the aid of the best chemical analysis. 

 Monkeys are liable to many of the same non-contagious 

 diseases as we are ; thus Rengger, who carefully observed 

 for a long time the Cebus Azarm in its native land, found 

 it liable to catarrh, with the usual symptoms, and which, 

 when often recurrent,, led to consumption. These mon- 

 keys suffered also from apoplexy, inflammation of the 

 bowels, and cataract in the eye. The younger ones when 

 shedding their milk-teeth often died from fever. Medi- 

 cines produced the same effect on them as on us. Many 

 kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee, and 

 spirituous liquors : they will also, as I have myself seen, 

 smoke tobacco with pleasure. Brehm asserts that the 

 natives of Northeastern Africa catch the wild baboons by 

 exposing vessels with strong beer, by which they are made 

 drunk. He has seen some of these animals, which he 

 kept in confinement, in this state ; and he gives a laugha- 

 ble account of their behavior and strange grimaces. On 

 the following morning they were very cross and dismal ; 

 they held their aching heads with both hands, and wore 

 a most pitiable expression : when beer or wine was offered 

 them, they turned away with disgust, but relished the 

 juice of lemons. An American monkey, an Ateles, after 

 getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and 

 thus was wiser than many men. These trifling facts 

 prove how similar the nerves of taste must be in monkeys 

 and man, and how similarly their whole nervous system 

 is affected. 



Man is infested with internal parasites, sometimes 

 causing fatal effects ; and is plagued by external para- 

 sites, all of which belong to the same genera or families 

 as those infesting other mammals, and in the case of 

 scabies to the same species. Man is subject, like other 

 mammals, birds, and even insects, to that mysterious law 



