Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-08-08
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.
An Article that VIII Make the Bald and
the Gray Headed Rejoice.

Ofall the compounds which the chemists
art has given to the world, for hundreds
of wears, for the purpose of restoring the
hair to its natural growth and color, not
one has been perfect. Many of the hair
dressings of the day are excellent, but the
great mass OF the stuils sold for promoting
the growth and bringing back the original
color are mere h%umbugs, while not a few
are positively pernicious in their effects
upon the scalp and the structure OF the
hair. All hair dyes are well known to
chemists as more or less poisonous, be-
cause the change IN color IS artlhciai, ana
does not depend upon a restoration OF the
functions of the scalp to their natural
health and vigor. The falling out OF the
hair, the a~ccumulations of dandruff. and
he premature change in color, are all evil
dences of a diseased condition of the scalp
and the glands which nourish the hare To
arrest these causes the article used must
possess medical as well as chemical virtues,
and the change must begin AMER the scalp
to he of permanent and lasting benefit.
Such an article has been discovered, and
like many other wonderful discoveries it Is
found 10 consist of elements alnGSt Ill their
natural state. Petroleum oil is the article
which IS made to work such extraordinary
results; but it is after the best refined artl-
Gle has been chemically treated, and COM
pleteIy deodorizei, that it is in proper con-
dition or the toilet. 1t was in Iar-oft Rus
STA that the effects Of petroleum. upon the
hair were first observed; a Government
officer having noticed that a partially bald
headed servant Of his, when trimming the
lamps, had a habit of wiplng his olL-be-
smeared hands in his scauty locks, and the
result was, in Il few months, a much finer
head of black, glossy hair, tina he ever
had before. The oil was tried on horses
and cattle that had lost their hair from the
cattle plague, and the results were rs rapid
as they were marvellous. The names and
even the tails ct horses which had fallen
out were completely restored in II few weeks.
These experiments were heraldcd to the
world, bat the knowledge WAS practically
useless to the prrmaturcly bald and gray,
as no one in civilized society could toll
crate the use of refined petroleum as Il
dressing for the hair. But the skill of one
Of our chemists has overcome the difficulty,
and, by a process known only to himself,
he has, after very elaborate and costly eX-
pcriments, succeeded in deodorizingretincd
petroleum, which renders it susceptible OF
ocing handled Us daintily as the famous
.au de c0iogne. The experiments with the
leod0rized liquid on the human hair were
attended with the most astonishing results.
A few applications, where the hair was thin
-, and fall ne, gave remarkable tone and vig0r
20 the scalp and the hair, and the natural
: color began to appcara almost from the hrst
: application. Every particle OF dandrutt
disappears on the first or secoud dressing,
/ and the liquid, SO searching IN its nature,
I seems to penetrate to the roots at once, and
set up Z. radical change from the start. II
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