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Haas Adam, Baron of Oxensteirn, who was born in 15'29, that he was renowned for bodily 

 streno-th, and had a beard six feet two inches long \ Two cases are recorded, one of a 



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Monk who became blind upon cutting off a long beard, and the other of a Priest, who was 

 extremely robust, but who suddenly became sick and weak from cutting his long hair. 

 (Diet, de Sci. Med., v. 43, p. 27-2.) 



In Auverne, in France, they never cut the manes of their horses lor fear of dimini-hing 

 their strength. 



A singular growth of beard on the chins of females, in decline of life, has been referred 

 to the same category. (See Blumen's Inst. Phys., 660.) Bichatsays that this is a, new 

 direction of vitality. Gross tells of a female, of 78, the mother of a large family, whose 

 chin and lip was covered with a coarse beard, which obliged her to shave once a week. 

 (Elem. de Phys. and Anat., 227.) 



WHEN HAIR FIRST MAKES ITS APPEARANCE. The first development of hair, according 

 to Valentin, [Entivi Chelangeschi elite, p. 275,] is either at the end of the third, or the 

 commencement or middle of the fourth month ; but others think that it is not till the 

 seventh month.* Bichat says that, "during the first months of the foetus, there is no 

 hair upon the still gelatinous skin. That it is at the time of the production of the fibrous 

 tissues that you perceive, upon the head, a fine down, indicative of the hair which is to 

 succeed. This down," he says, "is whitish, and is hidden in a greasy and unctuous sub- 

 stance, which covers the skin. Shortly after it becomes colored; but palely so until 

 birth." 



THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF HAIR ON THE POSSUM. Prof. Charles Meigs, M. D., of this 

 city, watched the progress of development of a brood of possums, and there was no 

 appearance of hair until the seventy-second day after they were first discovered in the 

 pouch of their mother. (MS;)f 



Some [hybrid] lambs are provided, at birth, with hair, which is soft, short and pointed, 

 and which falls out, leaving the place for wool. (Fleishman.) 



We have obtained, through the kindness of the Hon. Jonathan Roberts, of Montgomery 

 county, Pa., some of this lamb's hair. In Mr. Roberts' note, he says, some varieties of 

 stock show little or no signs of hair in their first stages such as the Merinos, for the most 

 part, and in a good degree so are the Southdowns, on which we now pretty much run. 

 And so of the Dishleys. We have had them sometimes very hairy, and there are instances 

 where it never assumes the perfect state of woolly fibres. (MS.) 



OF THE THREE VARIETIES OF THE HAIR OF THE HEAD OF MAN. All organized beings 

 have their periods or ages of existence. In general the form is at first simple, and becomes 



* We have, in our collection, a foetus of three months, upon which there is not a single hair; and we have a specimen of 

 a portion of a scalp of another of five months, upon which there is hair. 



t With birds, towards the end of the ninth day of incubation, on the skin of the embryo are seen little pores, which fire 

 the openings of capsules destined to secrete feathers, which begin to show themselves at the end of the tenth day, and to 

 cover the body in the course of twenty-four hours. (Elom. de Zool., 215.) 



The cub Lion has no mane when born. 



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