The hair : its growth, care, diseases, and treatment / by C. Henri Leonard.

  • Leonard, C. Henri (Charles Henri), 1850-1925.
Date:
1880
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Credit: The hair : its growth, care, diseases, and treatment / by C. Henri Leonard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fig. 48. Fig. 49. times made use of to assist in fastening the hair. This was usually, in the case of the Athenian ladies, in the shape of a grasshopper, so as to indicate that the'y were aborigines. The Greeks had nine dif- ferent names for the hair, according to the style in -which it was worn ; the Romans had five names to answer the same purpose. (1) The Greek word i'dsipa stood for a head of hair when carefully dressed. (2) Xaiti] meant long flowing hair, though properly the mane of a horse or lion. This is typical of the locks of Jove as seen in Figure 51, where the lion's face, Figure 50, is contrasted with his. The hair, the attribute of strength in this case (as also in Samson's), rises up from the forehead, and rolls back in loose curls down the cheeks, until the beard is reached and finally included in the curling mass. This same rolling condition of the hair is presented as a type in the descendants of Jupiter, as on yEsculapius, Alexander, etc. All the heads of Jupiter bear this same peculiarity of cranial covering. Indeed, all the divin- ities of the Greeks have a cranial covering peculiar to them- selves, and it is seen constantly in their portraits or statues ;