THE HAIR - Its Growth, Care, Disease and Treatment E-Book

Hermann Beigel M.D.

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The human hair being an ornament which it is almost everybody's endeavour to preserve inviolate as long as possible, it is explicable, why the fear of losing that ornament has become a matter of speculation of charlatanism on the credulity of the public. The best means of confounding the designs of such speculations, is the statement of real facts, distributing thus the light of knowledge. The following pages are intended to be a popular treatise, aiming at showing that the laws by which the life of the hair is governed differ not from the laws to which the body at large is subject, and that deviations of normal development must be considered - as is the case in other organs - as disease and treated as such.

Leseprobe

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE.

CHAPTER I. - HISTORICAL REMARKS.

CHAPTER II. - THE MICROSCOPE.

CHAPTER III. - THE SKIN, AND HOW THE HAIR IS FIXED IN IT.

CHAPTER IV. - MICROSCOPICAL STRUCTURE OF THE HAIR.

CHAPTER V. - DEVELOPMENT OF THE HAIR.

CHAPTER VI. - ABNORMAL GROWTH OF THE HAIR.

CHAPTER VII. - THE COLOUR OF THE HAIR—OF SUDDEN BLEACHING OF THE HAIR.

CHAPTER VIII. - INFLATION AND CRACKING OF THE HAIR.

CHAPTER IX. - THE CHIGNON-FUNGUS.

CHAPTER X. - A NEW DISEASE OF THE HAIR-SAC.

CHAPTER XI - MATTED HAIR—PLICA POLONICA.

CHAPTER XII. - BALDNESS—ALOPECIA.

CHAPTER XIII. - MANAGEMENT OF THE HAIR—HAIR DYES.

THE HAIR

Its Growth, Care, Disease and Treatment

Hermann Beigel M.D.

digital edition 2017 by David De Angelis

PREFACE.

The human hair being an ornament which it is almost everybody's endeavour to preserve inviolate as long as possible, it is explicable, why the fear of losing that ornament has become a matter of speculation of charlatanism on the credulity of the public. The best means of confounding the designs of such speculations, is the statement of real facts, distributing thus the light of knowledge.

The following pages are intended to be a popular treatise, aiming at showing that the laws by which the life of the hair is governed differ not from the laws to which the body at large is subject, and that deviations of normal development must be considered—as is the case in other organs—as disease and treated as such. Although this little book aims—as already mentioned— at being a popular treatise, yet I hope that some of the chapters may interest even those who have a knowledge of the subject, I allude to the chapter on the chignon-fungus.

CHAPTER I. -HISTORICAL REMARKS.

From the remotest times, and by all nations, great importance has been attached to that appendix of the human body which is considered one of its finest ornaments; Julius Caesar, the great Roman General, who, unfortunately, was bald-headed, considered therefore—according to the Roman historian Suetonius— of all the honours bestowed upon him by the Senate, that as the greatest, by virtue of which permission was granted to him to wear permanently his laurel in order to cover his deficiency of hair.

A head densely grown with hair has always been considered as a symbol of vigour and strength. Thus Samson says to Delilah_, " There hath not come a razor upon mine head