OH, A TREATISE ON PILE. 



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radicules of the ambicular vein? for there is no direct communication between the 

 maternal and fecal circulation. Or was it a spontaneous generation? Or was it forced in 

 from without? (See Berard's Cours. de Physio., p. 99 of 1 vol.) 



HAIR FROM THE STOMACH. Dr. F. A. Vandyke told us of a case of a female lunatic, who 

 extracted her hypogastric hair and swallowed it. Upon a post mortem examination, had 

 for another purpose, they were found in her stomach in the form of a ball. 



We have in our cabinet quite a variety of hair-balls extracted from the stomach of Rumi- 

 nants, many of which we have examined. 



Examination and Description of Bair from the Stomach of a Ruminant, March 14th, 

 1849. Presented by Prof. John K. Mitchell, M. D., of this city. Length, | of an inch; 

 shape, cylindrical; diameter, ^^ of an inch; color, dirty brown; no lustre, no button, 

 sheath, nor follicle ; apex, some abrupt and others pointed. In the general appearance 

 resembling cow's hair. 



Trial of f of an inch with the Trichometer. 



With 170 grains it stretched -^ of an inch, elasticity entire. 



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Dr. Rogers, speaking of these hair-balls found in the stomach and alimentary canal of 

 Cows, &c., says that the animals lick the hairs from the skin and swallow them with the 

 saliva; that they concrete, forming a ball. (Prin. and Prac. of Med., 1844, p. 934.) In 

 Youatt's Essay on Sheep, in Lib. of Usf. Know., 439, will be found an account of these 

 balls by the name of Bezeors or Calculi in the abemasum of these animals. From a note 

 affixed it seems that they are found likewise in every species of Deer and Antelope, in the 

 Elephant, the Rhinoceros, the Porcupine and some other animals. 



Hair on the Tongue. The second volume of the Medical Examiner, 1846, p. 266, 

 mentions several cases of hairy productions on the surface of the tongue. (Med. Times, 

 v. 13, p. 148.) 



OF PILE WHICH APPEARS TO GROW OUT OF THE INTERIOR SURFACE OF THE SKIN. 

 Some of the skins of the lower animals, tanned with the pile on, have filaments which 

 appear to be growing out of the interior surface of the skin. The first one upon which 

 we noticed this phenomenon was the skin of an Otter. It was about one foot in length 

 and about seven inches wide, and there was a spot near the centre, of about five by three 

 inches, where the pile grew sparsely upon the inner surface. The animal was, as usual, 

 covered with a dense, fine wool, with long hairs above, but none but the hairs were to be seen 

 on the inner surface. The hairs on the back of the animal have the usual acute angle, 

 which obliged them to lie smoothly, inclining from the head towards the tail ; but these 

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