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8. On the Colour of the Skin of Men and Animals in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Robert Wallace
Affiliation:
Professor of Agriculture and Rural Economy in the University of Edinburgh
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Indian cattle have, with few exceptions, jet black skins. The hair is frequently white, grey, brown, or black, but only in rare cases are the skins white. The animals having white skins are weakly, if not unhealthy, are liable to blister with the sun, and contract after a time a form of leprosy.

Type
Proceedings 1887-88
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1889

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