8 PREFACE BY THE EDITOR. 



now that this discovery has been made, and proclaimed, on the groand of repeated trials and tesU- 

 mony, to all appearance concluBive, what is there in the theory that lactiferons secretions should 

 prodnce and show themselves in external marks and cutaneous exudations, any more wonderful 

 or out of the way, than that other secretions and faculties are known to produce not only marked 

 differences in form and color, but even perceptible, and, for the most part, offensive efluvia ? 



Observe the effect, in these respects, not only in the external differences of color and shape, 

 which mark the different sexes, but the no less striking effects produced by early emasculation of 

 the horse, the bull, the hog,-and the goat ! Hence, it is only " if I were hungry," says the Psalm- 

 ist, "I will eat the flesh ofbulls, and drink the blood oi goats." 



The famous Tuscany Ox, so celebrated for strength, activity, and endurance, and which Com- 

 modore Jones, in one of his letters addressed from the Mediterranean to Mr. Seinhek, says will 

 travel S2 miles a day, with heavy loads of ship timber, is, all over, of uniform light grey color; but 

 leave him unabridged of his full sexual proportions, and the effect is sure to be exhibited in the 

 black color and great enlargement of the neck, and early forehead. Is it, then, we repeat, extra- 

 ordinary or incredible that the milky secretions of the Cow should prodnce, in the region where 

 that process is carried on, and where her characteristic excellence lies, effects not more visible or 

 striking than are produced on the size, color and growth of the hair, on the shoulders, neck and 

 head of the bnll 7 Are the external signs— the di^rence in the growth and curl of the hair, con- 

 stituting the " escnteheons," and the scurf or dandmf thrown out on the skin, as described in this 

 book — anymore remarkable or strange in the one case than the other? But — "all things ire 

 strange" — untU they arefmmi oat t 



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