45B OF MANHOOD. 



nent than thofe of men : But their confiftence 

 and ftrudure are nearly the fame; for the 

 breads of men can fecrete milk. There are 

 many examples of this fad; and it commonly 

 happens at the age of puberty. I have feen a 

 young man of fifteen years fqueeze more than a 

 fpoonful of milk out of one breaft. Among 

 animals there is a great variety in the number 

 and fituation of their paps. Some, as the mon- 

 key and elephant, have only two placed on the' 

 fore part of the breaft ; others have four, as the 

 bear ; others, as the fheep, have only two fitu- 

 ated between the hinder legs; others have them 

 in great numbers upon the belly, as the bitch 

 and the fow. Birds, and all the oviparous 

 animals, have no paps. Viviparous fifhes, 

 as the whale, the dolphin, &c. have breaftsj 

 and fuckle their young. The form of the 

 breafts varies in different animals, and even 

 in the fame animal at different ages. It is al- 

 ledged, that women, whofe breafts are fhaped 

 like a pear, make the beft nurfes, becaufe the 

 mouth of the child comprehends not only the 

 nipple, but part of the breaft itfelf. 



Below the breaft is the belly, in which the 

 navel makes a confpicuous figure. In other a- 

 nimals it is hardly perceptible ; and even the 

 monkey has nothing in place of it but a kind of 

 callofity. 



The arms of man have little refemblance to 

 the fore feet of quadrupeds, and ftill lefs to 



the 



