Southern planter and farmer: devoted to agriculture, horticulture, and the mining, mechanic and household arts . affec-tion called by oculists trichiesis. I have seen this state of thingssupervene even upon inflammations having a traumatic origin, and•which proved of great obstinacy until this singular complication wasremoved. This abnormal growth of hair is very common in eyesoverstrained by reading or sewing, and though often but temporary,is most frequently chronic and permanent, and affords a good illus-tration of the subject of this paper. In horses of high metal, of great nervous power,
Southern planter and farmer: devoted to agriculture, horticulture, and the mining, mechanic and household arts . affec-tion called by oculists trichiesis. I have seen this state of thingssupervene even upon inflammations having a traumatic origin, and•which proved of great obstinacy until this singular complication wasremoved. This abnormal growth of hair is very common in eyesoverstrained by reading or sewing, and though often but temporary,is most frequently chronic and permanent, and affords a good illus-tration of the subject of this paper. In horses of high metal, of great nervous power, abnormal growthof the hair on the forehead or on the neck, near to the brain or inthe course of the cervical spinal column, are not uncommon. Thesewhorls have always been a popular sign of a high-spirited cow-lick, an upward-growing lock of hair, which occurs fre-quently in children at an early age and remains through life, may beadduced in opposition to my position, as it sometimes exists in per-sons not remarkable for mental activity; but it, too, really furnishes 1876.] PLANTER AND FARMER. 61. lIlllll^^Bi^^ Hill ItSm 62 THE SOUTHERN [January an illustration of the principle for which I am contending. Thisunnatural growth was probably occasioned by an inflammatory actionsupervening upon a fall or blow upon the head, which may have re-sulted in some concretion, which, pressing upon the brain, may bethe cause of intellectual dullness. The upward-turned hair in thiscase is not an indication of present vascularity, but of an exaltedcirculation that existed at some previous time. I hope that few instances of the abnormal growth of the hair ofanimals will lead the scientific observer not to reject this theory asunphilosophical, but may stimulate some investigator to further re-search into its connection with the blood supply of the adjacentorgans. S. K. Jackson. Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. [For the Southern Planter and Farmer.]LEICESTER SHEEP. The atte
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