PERSPIRATION. 275 



credible travellers assert that some inhabitants of the Kurille and 

 other islands in the Pacific and Indian Ocean are remarkably 

 hairy." s But Krusenstern, a late circumnavigator, declares that 

 he observed no particular hairiness of the people in this part of the 

 world, and that former accounts are at least exaggerations. 1 In the 

 island of Anicoa, he indeed met with one child, eight years of age, 

 covered with hair ; but such an instance has occurred in Europe. 

 Zacchias,in 1613, saw a tall man at Rome covered with h'ne, long, 

 straight hair, of a light yellow colour. There was a sister 

 similarly hairy, and the father had been a hairy person, but the 

 mother had not differed from other women. The man married ; 

 and, of four children, one girl and one boy were born covered 

 with black hair, looking, says Zacchias, like black kids, and re- 

 minding the attendants of the account of Esau's birth : " The 

 first came out red, all over like a hairy garment." In fifteen 

 days the whole of this hair fell off; and, as puberty approached, 

 soft fine hair sprung up all over the body, even over the 

 temples and forehead. x Shenckius has collected several similar 

 cases, y 



Evelyn says, " On the 15th of August, 1657, I saw the hairy 

 woman, 20 years old, whom I had before seen when a child. She 

 was borne at Augsburg, in Germany. Her very eyebrowes were 

 comb'd upwards, and all her forehead as thick and even as growes 

 on any woman's head, neatly dress'd ; a very long lock of haire 

 out of each eare ; she had also a most prolix beard, and musta- 

 chios, with long locks growing on the middle of her nose, like an 

 Iceland dog exactly, the colour of a bright browne, fine as well- 

 dress'd flax. She was now married, and told me she had one child 



of Path. Anat., translated by Mr. South, with additions, 8vo, Lond. 1831; 

 where will be found abundant references to cases of most curious singularities of 

 all the common integuments. Inflammation of the skin will make the hair fall 

 off; as well as dirt, fever, pain of the head, the administration of mercury, and 

 other causes of debility. They generally grow again, when the health is re- 

 novated, whether recourse is had to shaving or not 



4 " De Generis Human. Variet, Nativ., p. 29." 



1 Voyage round the World. Translated from the original German by G. B. 

 Hoppner, vol. ii. p. 78. 



u Genesis, c. xxv. 



* Qwzsliones Medico-Legales, lib. vii. Tit. 1. quaest. ix. 

 fiyiMV, sive Observ. $c. Volumen, p. 778. sq. 

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