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We tlrus see tliat not only do those parts of the skin which 

 bear white hair differ in a remarkable manner from those 

 bearing hair of any other colour, but that some great consti- 

 tutional difference must be correlated with the colour of the 

 hair; for in the above-mentioned cases, vegetable poisons 

 caused fever, swelling of the head, as well as other symptoms, 

 and even death, to all the white, or white-spotted animals. 



