276 PERSPIRATION. 



that was not hairy, nor were any of her parents or relations. She 

 was very well shap'd, and plaied well on the harpsichord," &c. z 



" Nor is there less variety in the length, flexibility, colour, and 

 disposition to curl, of the hair, both in each race of men 

 enumerated above, and in individuals : v. c. the hair of the head 

 in the Caucasian variety is rather dingy or of a nut brown, 

 inclined on the one hand to yellow, and on the other to black; 

 in the Mongolian and American, it is black, stiffer, straight and 

 more sparing ; in the Malay, black, soft, curling, thick, and 

 abundant ; in the Ethiopian, black and woolly : in individuals, 

 especially of the Caucasian variety, there are great differences, 

 and chiefly in connection with temperament, which is found 

 intimately and invariably connected with the colour, abundance, 

 disposition to curl, &c. of the hair a ; and there also exists a 

 remarkable correspondence between the colour of the hair and 

 of the irides. 



" The direction of the hairs is peculiar in certain parts, v. c. 

 spiral on the summit of the head ; diverging upwards on the 

 pubes ; on the exterior of the arm, as is commonly seen in 

 some anthropomorphous apes (v. c. in the satyrus and troglody- 

 tes), running in two opposite directions towards the elbow, i. e. 

 downwards from the shoulder, upwards from the wrist ; to say 

 nothing of the eye-lashes and eye-brows." 



A hair consists of a bulb b and stem. The bulb or follicle, 

 again, is ovoid, traverses the cutis obliquely, and consists of a 

 capsular membrane, white, firm, and continuous at its outer ex- 

 tremity with the cutis, and of another internal, reddish, soft, delicate, 

 and continuous with the rete mucosum. The cavity of the follicle 

 is chiefly filled with a bud or conical papilla, adherent at its base 

 to the bottom of the cavity, and free at its summit towards the 



z Bray's Memoirs of Evelyn, vol. i. p. 307. 4to. 1819. In Granger's Bio- 

 graphy an engraving and a mezzotinto of her are described. There is a curious 

 engraving of her in the Ephem. Nat. Curios., v. ii. obs. xcv. Her name was 

 Barbara Van Beck. 



a " Galen, Ars Medicinalis, pp.211 235. M. Ant. Ulm, Uterus Muliebris, 

 p. 128. et alibi, and Lavater, Fragments t. iv. p. 112., among many others." 



b " I suspect that the bulb is intended for support rather than for nourishment, 

 from this circumstance that the locks of hairs sometimes found in melicera 

 and steatomata of the omentum and ovarium, some of which I have now before 

 me, are usually destitute of bulbs, because they are not fixed, but lie naked in the 

 honey-like fatty matter." 



