The hair : its growth, care, diseases, and treatment / by C. Henri Leonard.
- Leonard, C. Henri (Charles Henri), 1850-1925
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The hair : its growth, care, diseases, and treatment / by C. Henri Leonard. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![vious to their interment. This custom probably arose from the fact that they believed no one could die until Proserpina had cut off a lock of their hair. This, they looked upon as a son of consecration of the person to the deities of the lower world. Virgil alludes to this in Nam, quia nec fato, raerita nec morte peribat. ******* Nondum illi flavum Porserpina vertice crinem Abstulerat. For she fell neither by fate, nor by a meritorious death. Proserpina had not yet clipped a lock of yellow hair from the crown of her [Dido's] head. Horace, in alluding to the same thought, says: * * * * Nullum Sseva caput Porserpina fugit. Not a head (no person) does the cruel Proserpina pass by. The ancient Gauls esteemed it an honor to have the hair long, and hence Caesar, when he had conquered them, not only made them pass under the yoke, but deprived them of their long tresses also; then those that vowed perpetual submission retired to the cloisters, and shaved their heads. This feelino- of humiliation, at the cropping of the hair, descended for genera- tions among the French people, and hence, under the first r'egime, to cut the hair of the heir to the crown was deemed an exclusion of his rights to the succession, and reduced him to the position of an ordinary subject. The kings and princes, during this period, wore their hair long ; though the subjects were made to have their hair cut short, as emblematic of their inferior state. They were also great admirers of red hair, although their descendants, at a period later, held it in abomi- nation. The ancient Britons, also, were proud of their long hair, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20386837_0282.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
