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taking care of their domestic concerns. But, what is very remarkable 

 is, that, ever since, he has had a constant flow of milk from the left 

 nipple, whereas in women it always ceases soon after they give up 

 nursing. 



" The man has been subjected to various trials, and examined very 

 accurately by Messrs. Castallar and Caballero, physicians and surgeons 

 to the army. His genitals were particularly inspected, but there was 

 not the least appearance of his being an hermaphrodite, or of any 

 difference from other men. The lymphatics, blood-vessels and con- 

 glomerate glands of his nipple presented the same appearance which 

 they do in women. The father himself remarks that his nipples were 

 more turgid, and that the flow of milk was more copious, of a whiter 

 colour and thinner, when he suckled his first child than at the time of 

 his examination ; that at the same time all natural excretions were 

 much diminished, especially the sweat, to which he was much subject 

 before ; and that he had not the least appetite for venery for several 

 months after. On the 4th of March, 1786, in the city of Cumana, 

 before the commandant of the town, Colonel Lascanotegui and the 

 Lieut. -General Bailets, and several others, Mr. Lozana filled a spoon 

 with the milk of the left breast, which was of a yellowish colour ; and 

 he drew a small quantity from the right nipple." 



ON MONSTERS. 



Introduction. — Nature being pretty constant in the kind and number 

 of the different parts peculiar to each species of animal, as also in the 

 situation, formation, and construction of such parts, we call everything 

 that deviates from that uniformity a ' monster,' whether [it occur in] 

 crystallization, vegetation, or animalization. There must be some 

 principle for those deviations from the regular course of Nature, in the 

 economy of such species as they occur in. In the present inquiry it 

 is the animal creation I mean to consider. Yet, as there may be in 

 some degree an analogy between all the three [kingdoms of Nature], I 

 shall consider the other two so far as this analogy seems to take place. 



As every animal is formed from a portion of animal matter endowed 

 with life and actions, being either so arranged in itself as only to 

 require new matter for it to expand itself according to the principle 

 inherent in itself, — as in all animals produced from semen, deposited 

 either in a womb or an egg, or where any portion of an animal shall, 

 out of itself, produce an animal similar to itself, as in the polypus, — 



