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Aristotle
On the Generation of Animals

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hairs

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1 V, 1| only other animal whose hairs whiten visibly in old age. 2 V, 3| animal among the vivipara. Hairs differ in respect of hardness 3 V, 3| moisture evaporates. Now the hairs or their analogue are not 4 V, 3| them, and therefore thick hairs arise from a thick skin 5 V, 3| is rarer and thicker, the hairs are thick because of the 6 V, 3| dries up quickly and the hairs do not gain in size, but 7 V, 3| the same reason also the hairs of the head in man are thickest, 8 V, 3| porous.~The cause of the hairs being long or short depends 9 V, 3| And for this reason the hairs of the head are longest 10 V, 3| abundance of moisture.~The hairs become straight or curly 11 V, 3| straight-haired; for in these hairs the moisture advances as 12 V, 3| pores are the finer must the hairs be. Hence the class of sheep 13 V, 3| class of sheep have such hairs (for wool is only a multitude 14 V, 3| wool is only a multitude of hairs).~There are some animals 15 V, 3| is from this that spines, hairs, and such things are formed; 16 V, 3| animals grow older, the hairs become harder in those which 17 V, 3| harder in those which have hairs, and the feathers and scales 18 V, 3| and so are feathers and hairs by those animals that have 19 V, 3| growing and losing feathers, hairs, or leaves respectively. 20 V, 4| what is called leprosy the hairs become white; on the contrary, 21 V, 4| on the contrary, if the hairs are white the whiteness 22 V, 4| The reason is that the hairs grow out of skin; if, then, 23 V, 4| jest when they call grey hairs "mould of old age" and For 24 V, 4| this is so is this: grey hairs have often grown on men 25 V, 4| disease, and later on dark hairs instead of them after restoration 26 V, 4| nutriment causes the grey hairs. But when men have recovered 27 V, 5| has said: "where the first hairs grow on the skull of horses, 28 V, 5| moisture easily flows to these hairs because of the thinness 29 V, 5| they go grey. The reddish hairs go grey sooner than the 30 V, 5| shown by the fact that some hairs grow grey from the first, 31 V, 5| in a withered state. Many hairs also whiten at the tip, 32 V, 5| thinnest parts.~When the hairs of other animals are white, 33 V, 5| consequence of a mixture of the hairs, it is found to be white 34 V, 5| not strength to change the hairs; on the contrary the skin 35 V, 5| sun and wind, while the hairs do not change along with 36 V, 5| thing grows, therefore the hairs change according to the 37 V, 6| from which come into being hairs and feathers and skins.~ 38 V, 6| So much for colours and hairs.~


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