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coloured race of Chayma Indians : he is a white 

 man, descended from Europeans. Moreover, 

 the anatomists of Petersburg* have observed, 

 that among the lower orders of the people in 

 Russia, milk in the breasts of men is much more 

 frequent, than among the more southern na- 

 tions ; and the Russians have never been deem- 

 ed weak and effeminate. 



There exists among the varieties of our kind 

 a race of men, whose breasts at the age of pu- 

 berty acquire a considerable bulk. Lozano did 

 not belong to this class ; and he often repeated to 

 us, that it was only the irritation of the nipple, 

 in consequence of the suction, which caused the 

 flow of the milk. This confirms the observation 

 of the ancients, " that men who have a small 

 quantity of milk, yield it in abundance, when 

 their breasts are sucked -j-." These singular ef- 

 fects of a nervous stimulant were known to the 

 shepherds of Greece; those of Mount Oeta rubbed 

 the dugs of the young goats, that had not yet con- 

 ceived, with nettles, to make them produce milk. 



When we reflect on the whole of the vital 

 phenomena, we find, that no one of them is en- 

 tirely isolated. In every age examples are cited 

 of young girls not marriageable, or women wi- 



* Comment. Petrop., Tom. iii, p. 278. 



+ Arist., Hist. Anim., lib. iii, cap. 20, ed. Duval, 1639» 

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