[142] This last statement acquires no little additional interest from the fact that according to more modern observations on the part of _J. Carver_ (Voyage dans l’Amérique Sept., etc. trad. de l’Anglais,—Travels in North America, etc., transl. from the English, Yverdun 1784., pp. 355 sqq.) and Crêve-Cœur (Lettres du Cultivateur Américain,—Letters from an American Farmer, Vol. III. p. 48), the bite of the rattle-snake would appear to call up on the skin of the person bitten, each recurrent year, marks resembling the hue of the snake. Comp. _C. W. Stark_, “Allgem. Pathologie” (General Pathology), Leipzig 1838. p. 364. Perhaps too the expression κίναδος belongs in this connection, of which the Scholiast on Aristophanes, Clouds 447., says, εἶδός τι θηρίου.—κακοῦργος οὖν, φησὶν, ὡς ἀλώπηξ, τινὲς δὲ κίναδος ζῶον μικρὸν _τὸ αἰδοῖον εἰςσωθοῦν καὶ ἐξωθοῦν_. (a kind of beast,—mischievous, they say, as a fox, but others say κίναδος means a little animal that _forces its way in and out of the privates_). Suidas brings forward the same statement, under the word κίναδος. From the connection in which _Democritus_ mentions it in Stobaeus’ Sermon. 42., περὶ κιναδέων τε καὶ ἑρπετέων (Of κίναδοι and Creeping Things), _Schmeider_ in his Lexicon supposes it to signify _snakes_ particularly. Again _Schnieder_, Arrian’s Indica p. 50., interprets it by ὄφις (a snake). The close resemblance with κίναιδος (Cinaedus) is striking. [143] _Juvenal_, Sat. VI. 332, 33. Hic si Quaeritur, et desunt homines: more nulla per ipsam, Quominus imposito clunem summittat _asello_. (If he is sought in vain, and men are not to be found; _she_ makes no delay, but straightway submits her rear to the _donkey_ that is made to mount her). Comp. _Appuleius_, Metamorphos. Bk. X. 226. Pasiphaé’s bull is familiar to all. Comp. Suetonius, Nero II. Martial, Spectac. VI. [144] _Jo. Jac. Reiske_ and _Jo. Ern. Fabri_, Opuscula medica ex monumentis Arabum et Ebraeorum, (Minor Medical Treatises derived from the Monuments of the Arabs and Jews), Revised edition by _Ch. G. Gruner_, Halle 1776. 8vo., p. 61. [145] _Hippocrates_, De aere aq. et loc., edit. Kühn Vol. I. p. 549. [146] Comp. _Simon Zeller von Zellenberg_, Abhandl. über die ersten Erscheinungen venerischer Lokal-Krankheitsformen und deren Behandlung, (Treatise on the first Appearances of Local Forms of Venereal disease, and their Treatment), (One treatise under six heads),—Vienna 1820. large 8vo. pp. 11-18. [147] According to _Al. Donné_, Recherches microscopiques sur la nature des mucus et la matière des divers écoulements des organes genitourinaires chez l’homme et chez la femme, (Microscopic Researches into the Nature of the Mucous Secretions and the Constituents of the Various Discharges from the genito-urinary Organs in Male and Female), Paris 1837., the vaginal mucus disengaged under normal circumstances _always exhibits an acid reaction_.