Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-05-17

with six or eight times it, quantity OF some
grease, Of great service In promoting the growth
OF the hair. Essential oils, ammonia, croton
Oh, Nerwegisn tar, juniper tar, iodurated and
the same purpose; all these substances tending
To increase the action Of the skin.
The hair, moreover, should be cut frequently,
and kept short whilst under treatment. The
ordinary methcd OF hair cutting is of little avail
remedially. Usually the long hairs only are
trimmed, whereas IL Is the short, weak hairs
bat should be cut, that their stem may receive
more sap, and grow up stronger and thicker.
Some require Topping off near the summit,
others on the surface. whilst diseased or with
cred hairs require plucking altogether. This
plan is pIactised by hairdresser named VIII
Iams, in Mount street, Grosvenor square, whose
method, according to Erasmus Wilson, has pro-
duced the happiest and most remarkable re-
suits This haircutter told Mr.. Erasmus Will
brethren OF the scissors if hair were cut prop
erly. but then there would be an end to wig
making. This system tends much 10 prevent
the extension OF grayness, and, combined with
JCdio1ops plucklDg, Is capable of correcting
completely tie disorder. In order to render 1t
generally popular, we must remark, the scale
Of charges should be reduced so as to place it
within reach Of the multitude.
No external treatment in the severer cases of
hair calling can be successful, unless il be ac-
companied by proper internal remedies, taken
under medical guidance. The digestion will
have to be attended to; and tOnics, such as
quinine. strychnia, cod-liver Oil, the various
preparations Of iron and phosphorus, will have
to be employed to build up the constitution,
ard repair any nervous exhaustion. Fowler's
solution OF arsenic has been found to possess
extraordinary properties in this respect by Mr..
Hunt, F. X. G. s., as stated by him in his
"Guide to the Treatment of Diseases of the
Skin" The discovery of this peculiar influence
OF this powerful medicine was made accidentally
on an elderly man, who was being treated for a
disease of the skin, aud who had become par
tally bald from natural decay. He had taken
ARISEN for six weeks, when he called the sur
hair was growing luxuriantly on the bald por-
ton of his scalp. The hair was snort, but
healthy and thick. Mr.. Hunt tried the remedy
on one hundred and sixty patients, and though
it occasionally failed in elderly people, it was
invariably successful in yeung and middle aged
subjects. The effects were apparent after six
or eight weeks, but the treatment had to be
continued for many months before it could be
left of. Here no outward applications were
required.
1t has been asserted that wearing a beard
often causes badness. as it is alleged that the
strength which is spentin promoting the growth
Of the hair on the chin leaves so much less to
assist the growth Of the hair on the scalp. In
support of this theory, those individuals are
pointed out, who, possessing more or less luxu-
RANT boards, have lost their hair early. But it
is not proved that those two circumstances are
in any way connected together, and it is i'm
possible to ascertain whether the same individ-
they never exhibited those ornaments on their
chins. This is one of those theories that. like
many other physiological problems of far great
er importance, must remain unsOlved for the
present. Attention to the rules we have re-
peated, and to the observations we have made,
will do more towards the preservation of our
hair than any doctrine with reference to our
boards.