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ATLANTIC JOURNAL 
AND 
A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OP 
HISTORICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES, USEFUL KNOWLEDGE,- ■&«. 
WITH FIGURES. 
BY C. S. RAFINESQUE, 
Professor of Historical and Natural Sciences, Member of many learned Socie- 
ties in America and Europe, Author of many Works, &c. &c. 
Knowledge is the mental food of man. 
VOL. I. 
Philadelphia, Summre of 1833. 
No. 6. 
Article 130. 
Epidermic Varieties of 
Mankind. 
These varieties in the skin 
of men are now known to be so 
numerous, that they require a 
classification; the name of Al- 
binos often given them, # not ap- 
plying except to a few. They 
are all JYcffiural deviations in 
the tissue and color of the skin, 
extending also to the hair and 
eyes; occasionally evolved in 
all the parts of the world, and 
springing from parents of a 
different hue. 
First Series . Albinic vari- 
eties or Natural Deviations, 
by bleaching the skin and hair, 
or passage from dark to paler 
or whiter complexions. True 
Albinos . 
b Var. Lactins . Skin milk 
white, hair white, silky, eyes 
often red and weak. 
2. Var. Albins. Skin white or 
bleached, neither florid nor 
milky, hair bleached or grey 
and silky, eyes blue or whitish. 
3. Var. Falins- Skin 
or brownish (like coffee and 
milk), hair rnfotis or ashy, eyes 
slaty or redish. 
4. Var. Stalins . Skin white 
scaly, cheeks florid, hair pale 
silky, eyes blue and weak. In 
Polynesia. 
5 . Var. Quimos. Skin pale 
tawny, hair pale, short, woolyy 
eyes pale, dwarfish body, long 
arms, kc . In Madagascar. 
Second Series . Meiadic 
Varieties, or Natural Devi- 
ations by mixture of dark and 
pale colors. Spotted Men. 
6. Var. Meladins . Skin half 
white or pale, and half brown 
or black, hair and eyes varia- 
ble, little deviated. 
7. Var. Pintados. Skin with 
brown or black spots in the 
white race, pale or white in the 
black race, hair silky, and 
often small eyes. 
8. Var. Lividins* Skin with 
irregular spots of a livid red 
color, called birth spots, or 
spots; not a disease* 
