This
may the neck, the trunk, the hands. Simpson long since noted that
uterine irritation apart from pregnancy may produce pigmentation
of the areolae of the nipples (_Obstetric Works_, vol. i, p. 345).
Engelmann discussed the subject and gave cases, "The
Hystero-Neuroses," pp. 124-139, in _Gynaecological Transactions_,
vol. xii, 1887; and a summary of a memoir by Fouquet on this
subject in _La Gynecologie_, February, 1903, will be found in
_British Medical Journal_, March 28, 1903,
Of all physical traits vigor of the hairy system has most frequently
perhaps been regarded as the index of vigorous sexuality. In this matter
modern medical observations are at one with popular belief and ancient
physiognomical assertions.[165] The negative test of castration and the
positive test of puberty point in the same direction.
It is at puberty that all the hair on the body, except that on the head,
begins to develop; indeed, the very word "puberty" has reference to this
growth as the most obvious sign of the whole process. When castration
takes place at an early age all this development of pubescent hair is
arrested. When the primary sexual organs are undeveloped the sexual hair
is also undeveloped, as in a case, recorded by Plant,[166] of a girl with
rudimentary uterus and ovaries who had little or no axillary and pubic
hair, although the hair of the head was long and strong.
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