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off and renewed twice a day. Internally rhubarb grains vi. or 

 viii. every night, so as to procure a stool or two extraordinary 

 every day, and thus by increasing one evacuation to decrease 

 another. Cool dress, diluting liquids? 



15. Crinesnovi. New hairs. The black points on the faces 

 of some people consist of mucus, which is become viscid, and 

 which adheres in the excretory ducts of the glands of the skin; as 

 described in Class I. 2. 2. 9. and which may be pressed out by 

 the fingers, and resembles little worms. Similar to this would 

 seem the fabrication of silk and of cobweb, by the silk-worm 

 and spider; which is a secreted matter pressed through holes, 

 which are the excretory ducts of glands. And it is probable, 

 that the production of hair on many parts of the body, and at 

 different periods of life, may be effected by a similar process; and 

 more especially as every hair may be considered as a slender 

 flexible horn, and is an appendage of the skin. See Sect. 

 XXXIX. 3. 2. Now as there is a sensitive sympathy between 

 the glands, which secrete the semen, and the throat, as appears 

 in the mumps; see Hydrophobia, Class IV. I. 2. 7. and Paro- 

 titis, Class IV. 1. 2. 19. the growth of the beard at puberty 

 seems to be caused by the greater action of the cutaneous glands 

 about the chin and pubes in consequence of their sympathy with 

 those of the testes. But this does not occur to the female sex at 

 iheir time of puberty, because the sensitive sympathy in them 

 seems to exist between the submaxillary glands, and the pectoral 

 ones; which secrete the milk, and afford pleasure both by that 

 secretion, and by the erection of the mammulas, or nipples; and 

 by delivering the milk into the mouth of the child; this sen- 

 sitive sympathy of the pectoral and submaxillary glands in wo- 

 men is also observable in the Parotitis, or mumps, as above re- 

 ferred to. 



When hairs grow on the face or arms so as to be disagree- 

 able, they may be thus readily removed without pain or any ill 

 consequence. Warm the ends of a pair of nippers or forceps, 

 and stick on them a little resin, or Burgundy pitch; by 

 these means each single hair may be taken fast hold of; and 

 if it be then plucked off slowly, it gives pain; but if plucked 

 off suddenly, it gives no pain at all; because the vis inertias 

 of the part of the skin, to which it adheres, is not overcome; 

 and it is not in consequence separated from the cellular mem- 

 brane under it. Some of the hairs may return, which are 

 thus plucked off, or others may be induced to grow near them; 

 but in a little time they may be thus safely destroyed; which 

 is much to be preferred to the methods said to be used in Turkey 



