Why shave?, or, Beards v. barbery / by H.M.

  • H. M.
Date:
[between 1880 and 1889?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Why shave?, or, Beards v. barbery / by H.M. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREMATURELY BALD PEOPLE Seem to be under the impression that nothing will cause their Hair to grow again, and laugh, or smile sadly, if you suggest to them a remedy. Iu this, however, they only display their ignorance, otherwise they would know that the highest medical authorities and the greatest chemists are unanimous in declaring that almost every case of Alopecia save that arising from old age is curable. Dr. Tom Robinson, moreover, declares emphatically, in his book on “ Baldness and Glreyness,” that “ baldness should not commence before the age of fifty, and “ if it occurs before that time,” is generally “due to some removeable cause; and Sir Erasmus Wilson goes even further, for he says that, with proper management, “ the Hair might be retained till the end of life.” The fact is, Premature Baldness, in innumerable instances, is simply the result of the hair-papillse becoming torpid through want of sufficient nourishment, and, so long as these have any life in them at all, they may be resuscitated by artificial means, and made to perform their natural functions. To give tone and formative force to the nerves of the scalp, there is nothing to equal BUCHANAN’S PETROLIA, one of the principal ingredients in which, as its title implies, is a specially-refined preparation of Petroleum. Its hair-forcing properties are simply remarkable. Only the other day (Oct. 30), the famous dramatist, Mr. GEO. R. SIMS (“Dagonet ”) recommended, in the Referee, all his bald readers to use it, as it had caused his own Hair to grow luxuriantly ; while in his “ report on the Trade and Commerce of Nicolaieff (South Russia) for 1875,” HER MAJESTY’S CONSUL Mr. STEVENS declares, not only that a servant of his, prematurely bald, obtained a “fine head of black, glossy hair” through applying it to his “ scanty locks,” but that he himself “ tried it on two retriever spaniels that had become suddenly bald, with wonderful success,” and that it also had the same effect on “ several black cattle and horses ” suffering from the Cattle Plague. Surely the above testimonies are conclusive. Mr. WILLIAMS BUCHANAN, B.A., the inventor and manufacturer of PETROLIA, is a qualified Dermatologist, and he guarantees not only its efficacy, but its HARMLESSNESS. At the same time he would warn you against the cheap and worthless nostrums now in the market, which are owned by men who don’t know the difference between a follicle and a papilla. Price 2s. 9d. per Bottle. Carriage free and secretly packed. THE TWIRL of a MOUSTACHE Has ever been, to young ladies, something sweetly wicked; and that it was thus in Tom Moore’s time is shown by that letter in “The Twopenny Post Bag,” wherein a gushing little darling tells her bosom friend about a certain gentleman in Paris, “ With Moustaches that give what we read of so oft— The dear corsair expression, half savage, half soft.” Seeing, then, that this is so, and that every young man is well aware of the fact, what more natural than that, the moment the “ down ” begins to “ sprout ” on a youngster’s upper lip, his great ambition should be to cultivate it into a luxuriant growth? Yet how often are his attempts all in vain! Either the stubborn hairs persist in remaining scanty and indefinite, or, if they vegetate, become so coarse and “ stumpy ” as to excite the chaff and badinage of his male, and the playful dread and pity of his female, acquaintances, until at length, driven to desperation, he “ makes a clean shave of it,” forced to the sad admission, “ It’s no use; my Moustaches won’t grow properly l” In this, however, he is in error: they will “ grow properly ” if he uses BUCHANAN’S MOUSTACHIA. The “scantiness” and “indefiniteness” are the consequence of debility of the hair-papillm; the “coarseness” and “stumpiness” arise from impaired action of the sebaceous glands. In both cases, the remedy is MOUSTACHIA, which, by imparting formative tone and nutriment to the local blood¬ vessels and nerves, not only forces the growth of the incipient hairs, but renders these SOFT PLIABLE, and GLOSSY. Mr. WILLIAMS BUCHANAN, B.A.,the inventor and manufacturer of MOUSTACHIA,is a qualified Dermatologist, and has specially prepared the present remedy at the instance of thousands of pur¬ chasers of his famous Lotion for Premature Baldness, PETROLIA, He guarantees that if you give it a trial, you will be amply satisfied as to its merits, and would warn you against certain cheap nostrums now in the market, the owners of which are even more ignorant than the ingredients are worthless. . Price 2s. 9d. per Bottle. Carriage free and secretly packed. ADDRESS— WILLIAMS BUCHANAN, B,A., Specialist on Hair and Scalp Diseases, 11, BURTON STREET, LONDON, W.C. Consultations by Appointment. Advice by Letter. tS All Orders executed by return of Post. Chappele & Company Printers, 13, Garlick Hill, London, E.C.
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