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neck and broader head behind, than the gelding or the ox.This is obvious to persons engaged in husbandry and ridinghorses, who give a preference to those stallions whose earsstand widest apart. The male mule, which has no powerof procreation, generally speaking, has a very narrow neck,and the ears stand close together. It is further observed,the horns of the ox are much larger than those of the bull,for the reason previously mentioned, that ossification in-creases in the proportion the brain diminishes. Upon thesame principle, the growth of the horns of the stag aregoverned. If, at the time of rutting, this animal has itshorns cut off, it loses its power of procreation till they growagain. The channel of its generative faculty is turnedaside, and till that is recovered, it does not return.

Through the whole class of quadrupeds, the neck of themale is thicker than that of the female. Dr. Gall attributesthat to the longer duratiou of the sexual appetite in themale than the female. There are many phenomena in casesof disease which tend to the same conclusion. In thenymphonia , for instance, Dr. Gall has found a lady of rankand character in Vienna , subject to the most violent attacks.She was frequently seized with convulsive agony, thestrongest affections in her neck, and in a sort of madnesswould violently knock the back of her head against her backand shoulders, till by efforts like these she obtained a dis-charge of the matter which was the origin of her complaint.Wounds in the head and back of the neck, will inflame thegenerative organs, and sometimes produce impotency.

In nervous fevers, satyriasis is not merely a local disease,but a general evil of the whole nervous system, and shouldbe removed by such remedies as afford the nerves relief.This, the Doctor says, seems to intimate the participation’ of the brain in generation.

The cases of hydrops cerebi are also in favour of the samedoctrine. It is found that of all the general functions of thebrain, that of generation is often the only one which remainsundisturbed, and, for a well known cause, the cerebellumsuffers least of all parts of the brain. But a sufficiency ofcases to prove this position have been given.

The organ of aptness to learn and retain places, has thefollowing observations made upon it.

He says, this organ is apparent in various birds of pas-sage, as swallows and storks, pigeons, which are letter-car-riers, dogs, &c. He relates an anecdote of a dog carriedfrom Vienna to London , that returned to the port, took his

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