ansmitted the same characteristic to two of her young.

Sexualism and Hair Growth.--The growth or development of the hair may
be accelerated by the state of the organs of generation. This is
peculiarly noticeable in the pubic hairs and the beard, and is fully
exemplified in the section on precocious development (Chapter VII);
however, Moreau de la Sarthe showed a child to the Medical Faculty of
Paris in whom precocious development of the testicles had influenced
that of the hair to such a degree that, at the age of six, the chest of
this boy was as thickly set with hair as is usually seen in adults. It
is well known that eunuchs often lose a great part of their beards, and
after removal of the ovaries women are seen to develop an extra
quantity of hair. Gerberon tells of an infant with a beard, and
Paullini and the Ephemerides mention similar instances.

Bearded women are not at all infrequent. Hippocrates mentions a female
who grew a beard shortly after menstruation had ceased. It is a
well-recognized fact that after the menopause women become more
hirsute, the same being the case after removal of any of the functional
generative apparatus. Vicat saw a virgin who had a beard, and Joch
speaks of "foeminis barbati." Leblond says that certain women of
Ethiopia and South America have beards and little or no menstruation.
He also says that sterility and excessive chastity are causes of female
beards, and cites the case of Schott of a young widow who secluded
herself in a cloister, and soon had a beard.

Barbara Urster, who lived in the 16th century, had a beard to her
girdle. The most celebrated "bearded woman" was Rosine-Marguerite
Muller, who died in a hospital in Dresden in 1732, with a thick beard
and heavy mustache. Julia Pastrana had her face covered with thick hair
and had a full beard and mustache. She exhibited defective dentition in
both jaws, and the teeth present were arranged in an irregular fashion.
She had pronounced prognathism, which gave her a simian appearance.
Ecker examined in 1876 a woman who died at Fribourg, whose face
contained a full beard and a luxuriant mustache.

Harris reports several cases of bearded women, inmates of the Coton
Hill Lunatic Asylum. One of the patients was eighty-three years of age
and had been insane forty-four years following a puerperal period. She
would not permit the hair on her face to be cut, and the curly white
hairs had attained a length of from eight to ten inches