98 TRICHOLOGIA MAMMALIUM: 



Remarks. Ductility being one of the essential properties of pile, we are constrained to 

 pronounce these either not to be true hairs, or to believe that they have been changed in 

 this respect by some fluid with which they have come in contact, most probably the latter, 

 for the corroded state of the shaft would render that probable. But a difficulty still remains, 

 that while these specimens, respectively, resemble in some respects the hair of the head and of 

 the pubis of the oval-haired man the cylindroidal shape and deficiency in canal, negatives the 

 idea of such an identity with the former and the cylindrical shape with the latter of these 

 integuments. 



OF PILE FROM THE UTERUS. In the 6ih vol. of the West. Jour. of. Med. and Surgery, 

 p. 217, is an account of the expulsion of a mass of a dark color, from the uterus of a black 

 woman; which, upon examination, proved to be pile. It was deposited in the Museum of 

 the Medical College of South Carolina, and we are indebted to Dr. Henry R. Frost, of 

 Charleston, for a specimen. 



Examination and Description of Wool from the Uterus of a Black Woman, made 10th 

 of April, 1S49. Length, 10 inches and T 8 7 , eccentrically elliptical ; diameter, greatest, ^^ 

 of an inch, smallest -5-^ of an inch ; crisped ; color, dark brown, no lustre ; harsh and dry 

 to the touch ; no button, sheath, nor follicle ; shaft, lower extremity quill-shaped, some- 

 what blanched and perforated ; in some places encrusted with a whitish cellular substance, 

 and in others fractured so as to display the fibres. 



Trial of one inch with the Trichometer. Bar. 29, Ther. 70, F., Dew-Point 67. 

 With 100 grains it stretched -fa of an inch, elasticity entire. 

 " 300 " " \ '" " " 



" 400 " " -3-r '' " " 



" 550 fa " " 



" 650 " fa " " 



*( 700 il Ci ^K- * i il ** 



" 750 " 1% " minus -fa 



" 80 " if " A 



" 850 " " " JQ. 



" 900 '' " || 1 



" 950 " " 3-fi- '^ " " 14. 



" 1,000 " " " " " J-4 



" 1,050 " " " ||j. 



" 1,100 " " |$ " 



" i' 150 " " -H II- 



" 1,200 " " U " |f 





1 > 250 If 



" 1,300 " " *% " " | 



" 1,350 " broke. 



Whence came this pile? Are we to presume that its germ came from one of her 



parents, that it was transported by the circulation and absorbed in the placenta by the 



