PREFACE BY THE EDITOR. 



now that this discovery has been made, and proclaimed, on the ground of repeated trials and testi 

 mony, to all appearance conclusive, what is there in the theory that lactiferous secretions should 

 produce and show themselves in external marks and cutaneous exudations, any more wonderful 

 or out of the way, than that other secretions and faculties are known to produce not only marked 

 differences in form and color, but even perceptible, and, for the most part, offensive effluvia 1 



Observe the effect, in these respects, not only in the external differences of color and shape, 

 which mark the different sexes, but the no less striking effects produced by early emasculation of 

 the horse, the bull, the hog, and the goat ! Hence, it is only &quot; if I were hungry,&quot; says the Psalm 

 ist, &quot;I will eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats.&quot; 



The famous Tuscany Ox, so celebrated for strength, activity, and endurance, and which Com 

 modore JONES, in one of his letters addressed from the Mediterranean to Mr. SKINNER, says will 

 travel 22 miles a day, with heavy loads of ship timber, is, all over, of uniform light grey color ; but 

 leave him unabridged of his full sexual proportions, and the effect is sure to be exhibited in the 

 black color and great enlargement of the neck, and curly forehead. Is it, then, we repeat, extra 

 ordinary or incredible that the milky secretions of the Cow should produce, in the region where 

 ( that process is carried on, and where her characteristic excellence lies, effects not more visible or 

 striking than are produced on the size, color and growth of the hair, on the shoulders, neck and 

 head of the bull ? Are the external signs the difference in the growth and curl of the hair, con 

 stituting the &quot; escutcheons,&quot; and the scurf or dandruf thrown out on the skin, as described in this 

 book any more remarkable or strange in tne one case than the other ? But &quot; all things are 

 strange&quot; until they are found out / 



