The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-05-07 00:00:00

THE CHIGNON 001

In the number of Hardwieke's Science GM* issued
on Wednesday, is a full account of the chignon contro-
versy with a good deal of information relative to the so-
called " gregannes" found infestiag certain kinds of false
hair. It seams that there us some foundation for the
mention statements that ware recently mad* as to
the danger of wearing chignons, without the °Merman
of rigorous elemlinen In the article to which we
refer, which is Iron, the pen of Dr. Tilbury Fox, sod is
freely Illustrated by woodcuts, we are told that —"The
Immediate G• 1110 a the resent hubbub about e
was the appearance in the Hamburg paper De=
, of the 7th February, 18E7, of an artiele based
' upon the amount given in the Aran, der Gergeke
Medici,,, and Hygienic, and in which we ere informed
that Mr. Lindemann professes to have discovered and
observed a new microscope' parasite, to which be has
given the nun of gregarine. The most striking
'sateen of the parasitism of the gregarum is said to be
existence on the human hair. The gregarinous hair,
however, differs in no way from the sound hair.
Only. if one looks very Glassily little dark brown knot.,
which are generally at the free end of the hair, may be
distinguished even with the neked eye. These are
tregarines. Out of thirty samples of hair procured
from a hairdresser in Nislini Novgorod, gregarinee were
found in 75 per cent. And it is well known that the
hair used for the chignons of the better half of Roans
Is bought of the poor peasant women, who are prcver-
'gaily of dirty habits. Puriming his inquiry, Mr
Lindemann has discovered that almost eret7 lons* has
in its interior an enormous planter of gregarmes, and le
convinced himself by further experiments that the (re-
prices on the human hair are deposited there by lice.
He observed that the most favourable condition, for the
growth of "marines, are light, increased temperature,
and a moist atmosphere ; end he declare. that in the
bell-room then ere not without their influence on the
parasites when they exist on false hair, for they at ones
revive, grow, and multiply, get disseminated in millions
and in consequence of the teenaged respiration produced
by the exertion of daocing, are inhaled freely into the
longs, reach their epees& gregarin nature, and after
• whik induce disease in the bodr. D. gox then
proceeds to show that the above statements are incorrect,
and remarks : —lt has lain in my way during the last
ten years to investigate the whole 'object of diseases of
the hair onenected with the development of vegetable
permits', and I think no one has made • larger number
of micorcsoopie observations. I have never seen a true
gregerine in connection with the hair, but I have
recently found • vegetable growth on the false German
hair answering in naked eye appearances to that des-
cribed by Lindemann as little dark spooks surrounding
the hair towards its end. Oregano.,, according to
Liedemann, ars made up of cells, which he states to be
vegetable, and it is possible that that which I have
found may be identical with his gregerinw. I cannot
help thinking that many bodies totally dissimilar in
esters have been classed with growing*, which my
friend Rev. Lankemer, than who.. no higher authority
on the point snide, destines to he truly animal." The
vegetable parasite here referred to tarns out to be com-
posed of elemeets—little mieramapic threads and cells
—windier to Moss of the ordinary forms of mildew and
!meld, to which elm the growths found in and causing
certain dimmed states Of tbe skin belong. Dr. Fox
concludes:—" In the immediate condition in which we
god it on the heir it need cense but little anxiety, but
Its minute form transplanted to n suitable soil—acid the
mad delimit* children beat furnishes it—would
Obi disuses of the map ; of that I have no doubt.
• y the tissues of Malta via, those who wear
Mixon's, are not prose to the more severe forms of
mown produced by vegetable parasites; ned, as the
news of falai heir wore Is Ragland is free frost the
fugue deseribed above, the betel deedpw on „bolo
Is slight.