Chap. 96.] 
THE MTLK. 
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Those which produce a more numerous progeny, and those 
which have toes on the feet, have a greater number of paps dis- 
tributed in a double row all along the belly, such as the 
sow, for instance ; the better sorts have twelve, the more 
common ones two less : the same is the case also with the 
female of the dog. Other animals, again, have four paps situate 
in the middle of the belly, as the female panther; others, again, 
two only, as the lioness. The female elephant has two only, 
• situate between the shoulders, and those not in the breast, but 
without it, and hidden in the arm-pits : none of the animals 
which have toes have the paps between the hind legs. The sow 
presents the first teat to the first-born in each farrow, the first 
teat being the one that is situate nearest to the throat. Each 
pig, too, knows its own teat, according to the order in which 
it was born, and draws its nourishment from that and no other : 
if its own suckliug, too, should happen to be withdrawn from 
•my one of them, the pap will immediately dry up, and shrink 
')ack within the belly : if there should be only one pig left 
of all the farrow, that pap alone which has been assigned for 
its nutriment when born, will continue to hang down for the 
purpose of giving suck. The she-bear has four mammse, the 
dolphin only two, at the bottom of the belly ; they are not 
easily visible, and have a somewhat oblique direction : this is 
the only animal which gives suck while in motion. The balsena 
and sea-calf also suckle their young by teats. 
CHAP. 96. (41.) THE MILK : THE BIESTIN^GS. CHEESE; OF WHAT 
MILK CHEESE CANNOT BE MADE. HENNET ; THE VAEIOUS KINDS 
OF ALIMENT IN MILK. 
The milk that is secreted in a woman before her seventh 
month is useless ; but after that month, so long as the fcetus 
is healthy, the milk is wholesome : many women, indeed, 
are so full of milk, that it will flow not only from the mammae, 
but exudes at the arm-pits even.^^ Camels continue in milk 
until they are pregnant again. Their milk, mixed in the pro- 
portion of one part to three of water, is considered a very 
pleasant beverage. The cow has no milk before it has calved, 
and that which immediately follows upon its bringing forth is 
known as the colostra : " if water is not mixed with it, it will 
21 This assertion is borrowed from Aristotle, Hist. Anim. B. Yii. e. 14. 
Or biestings. 
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