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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    II. Th ose of a cold and moist temperament have narrow chests, hairless bodies, soft, white skins, feeble muscles, ill- formed joints and invisible veins. Their hair is light-colored, especially in youth, and they do not become bald [early ?]. The more morbid the temperament, the lighter the hair. This, it will be noticed, corresponds with our Phlegmatic temperament of to-day. III. The hot and dry are very shaggy; the hair of the head being very black, thick, strong and curly; it grows rapidly, though they early become bald. Their veins and arteries are large and the pulse strong; the body is firm, muscular and lean, and the skin is hard and dark. Their excretions are small, and they require but little sleep. They are active, passionate and implacable. This might be properly termed the modern Choleric temperament, to which our generals, and the like, might be referred. IV. Those with the cold and dry temperament have a white skin, a slender body, fine muscles, though somewhat fat. Their joints are small, and they have but little hair, and this is tawny. In our times this class should have black hair instead of Vtawny, and would be known as the Nervous tempera- ment. HYGIENE AND SOCIOLOGY OE HAIR COLORATION. Hymeneally there is an item of great interest connected with hair coloration, for we find that a greater proportion of light- haired women live and die unmarried, and without offspring, than the dark-haired. Statistics seem to show that our beau- tiful blondes, as they are familiarly called, although much is talked about them, stand in the actual matrimonial market three chances of failure to complete a life-contract, to two chances of failure on the part of their darker-haired sisters. Just what sort of a philosophy induces the sterner sex to talk so much to