The human hair : its structure, growth, diseases, and their treatment / by Hermann Beigel.

  • Hermann Heinrich Beigel
Date:
1869
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Credit: The human hair : its structure, growth, diseases, and their treatment / by Hermann Beigel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEEFACE. The Huiuan tair being an ornament whicli it is almost everybody's endeavour to preserve inviolate as long as possible, it is explicable, why tbe fear of losing that ornament lias become a matter of speculation of char- latanism on tbe credulity of tbe public. The best means of confounding tbe designs of sucb speculations, is tbe statement of real facts, distributing tbus tbe ligbt of knowledge. Tbe 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 abeady mentioned— at being a popular treatise, yet E hope that some of the chapters may interest even those who have a know- ledge of the subject, I allude to the chapter on the chignon-fungus, and to that on cracking of the hair, &c. H. Beigel, M.D. 3, Finahury Square, 28iJi December, 1868.