Baldness and greyness : their etiology, pathology & treatment / by Tom Robinson.

  • Robinson, Tom
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[1883]
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Credit: Baldness and greyness : their etiology, pathology & treatment / by Tom Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (cuticle or epidermis). The true skin, which rests upon a layer of fatty and cellular tissue, strong, tense and tough, is nevertheless highly elastic and yielding, and being composed of fibro-cellular tissue, interwoven in all direc- tions, numerous spaces or areolae are formed, which, in the deeper layers of the skin, usually contain little masses of fat. The surface of the true skin is beset with small eminences named papillae, which appear chiefly to con- tribute to the perfection of the skin as an organ of touch, as we find them highly deve- loped in parts where the sense of touch is exquisite, as on the hands and fingers. The glands of the skin are of two kinds :— The sudoriparous, or sweat glands, and the sebaceous, or oil glands. The sweat glands exist in all regions of the skin, but they are not equally abundant everywhere. Each sweat gland is supplied with a number of capillary vessels. The total number of these sweat or perspiratory glands has been estimated at nearly two millions and a half. Besides the perspiration, the skin also secretes a fatty matter by the sebaceous glands before men- tioned, which exist in all regions of the body,
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