Strange stories of the animal world : A book of curious contributions to natural history / by John Timbs.
- John Timbs
- Date:
- 1866
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Strange stories of the animal world : A book of curious contributions to natural history / by John Timbs. Source: Wellcome Collection.
360/404
![XYIL rOPULAE EEEOES EESPECTIXa AXIMALS. XIMAL Monstrosities have l3een strangely misrepre- sented as vulgar wonders. However capricious Monstrosities may appear, they are now understood to he the necessary results of preceding events. Within the last thirty years several of the laws of these unnatural births, as they used to be called, have been discovered; and it has been proved that so far from being unnatural, they are strictly natural. A fresh science has thus been created, under the name of Teratology^ whicli is destroying the old Imm naturae in one of its last and favourite strom>holds.* O Plood-spots, assumed, on food have caused much alarm. Erom the siege of Tyro—when Alexander was alarmed at the appearance of blood-spots on the soldiers’ bread—to our time, when a similar phenomenon was noticed at Berlin, ])ublic attention has, on various occasions, been attracted by red dis- colourations in. different sorts of food; the credulous have ascribed them to a miracle, while otliers liave referred their pretended appearance to the effect of an excited imagination. ]hit in 1848, Ehronberg found these blood-spots to be ani- malcides, which appear as corj^uscles, almost round, of to -g-oVir ^ length, transparent when sej)arately examined, but in a mass of the colour of blood. Ehreiiberg * Buckle’s Hist. Civilization in Englantl, vol. i. p. 829.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28127420_0362.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
