'i26 HISTORY or 



The neck supports the head, and unites it to the iiody. I'liis 

 part is much more considerable in the generality of quadrupeds, 

 than in man. But iishes, and other animals that want lung 

 similar to ours, have no neck whatsoever. Birds, in general, 

 have the neck longer than any other kind of animals ; those of 

 them which have short claws, have also short necks ; those, on 

 the contrary, that have them long, are found to have the neck 

 in proportion. — "In men, there is a lump upon the wind-pipe, 

 formed by the thyroid cartilage, which is not to be seen in 

 women : an Arabian fable says, that this is a part of the original 

 apple, that has stuck in the man's throat by the way, but that the 

 woman swallowed her part of it down." 



The human breast is outwardly formed in a very different 

 manner from that of other animals. It is larger in proportion 

 to the size of the body, and none but man, and such animals as 

 make use of their fore-feet as hands, such as monkeys, bats, and 

 squirrels, and such quadrupeds as climb trees, are found to have 

 those bones called the clavicles, or, as we usually term them, the 

 collar bones. ' The breasts in women are larger than in men ; how- 

 ever, they seem formed in the same manner ; and, sometimes, 

 milk is found in the breasts of men, as well as in those of women. 

 Among animals, there is a great variety in this part of the body. 

 The teats of some, as in the ape and the elephant, are like those 

 of men, being but two, and placed on each side of the breast. 

 The teats of the bear amount to four. The sheep has but two, 

 placed between the hinder legs. Other animals, such as the 

 bitch and the sow, have them all along the belly ; and, as they 

 produce many young, they have a great many teats for their sup- 

 port. The form also of the teats varies in different animals ; 

 and in the same animal at different ages. The bosom, in 

 females, seems to unite all our ideas of beauty, wliere the out- 

 line is continually changing, and the gradations are soft and regu- 

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1 Mr Bulfoa sayn, that none but monkeys have them, but this is an over, 

 nifflit 



* Darwin supports the curious theory, that our idea of the waving line of 

 lieauty originates from our early familiarity with the female bosom. " When 

 the babe," says he, " snon after it is born into tliis folil world, is applied to 

 its motlier'g bosom, its sense of perceivin;; warmth is first agreeably affected; 

 acx^ its s>ui9e of sniell is deligtited with the odour of her milk ; then its tasis 



