New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-12
HAIR TURNING SUDDENLY gHITE.


From, Notes and Queries
II is rather hard to be logged into discussion
against ones will but such IS the case WIN III.
now never wrote one syllable about the subject
M This note and vet MIR. Dixon. iumbng Two notes
together ipp -. So, writes a. II had, ana telis
me that being physician, know that mar - u
{. s-cr,ttou" etc / am physician, uhdoun tcub,
though have long ceased to practise ont 10 hot
know and do not intend TO know thaI q t'iit 20 "a
secretion and such without any rear 'I'"I'y Va
its own ! look upon Die. SALIVA elG' a. 800
tinns or excretIons but | consider hair 10 ne a
growth ana 10 such consider 10 n ne enuoWcS
with real vitality Just az much as tie sam u, Oh
,rict IA i nrrhaps like the mails. but another
form The outor layers of IL hair Ike the Ouler
LAYERS OF the skin cutIcle OF scarf SKIN ana like
the bark OF a tree for | see considerable resem-
blauce between the trunk OF tree ana q naIl,
have no DOUBT but comparatively niue vitauty 10
thri buf this III not the case with the inner ayers
| altogether demur to Mr. DiNons dlcium ihaI a
bs,r Las not Tn. power of getting rid OF the cOlOrIng
matter Already deposited Ia its substance II So
HAIR could never begin 10 get gray NJ tuc Up anu
VET everybody almost who has arrived at middle
ace mu,t have noticed the tip- getting gray hrSt
and ] have frequently noticed 1t myself upon my
own body. IL. .t NOAH
biIitv of II, doing so is certainly now geheraHy
admitted by medical men VINO have palu aIleutlp3H
70 the subject my sell k1eW 10y "a "a sis Of
her head became gray IN single night GU the
occasion OF the death OF her husband Whlch nal
occurred suddenly and under peculiarly distressing
circumstances: and when | first knew her. thouGh
years had elapsed, the difference IN color between
bot notwithstanding
gray, was still most marked ANA ny VIE ms dIso
known an almost precisely similar case. farmer
wife was the first to one of her husband rlcks
on tire. The shock vas lntsnse ana very SHORTY li,y
after ward 1T may have been the neat morning. she
noticed broad white band running across one slde
of her lead. My wife did not see her TIL some
wears atterward still then she was only thirty, aud
her hair was perfectly black with the exception OF
the broad white band. c
Many Years ago / remember reading IN herman
medical magazine paper 10y German physician.
i'm winch ne described similar cases which had come
under hi- own notice but be lad gone luTtHeri
he had ll-o examined HE hairs under the microscope
and he had found that the cOlorlug matter was stiu
There but that quantity OF bubbles OF AIT had IN
tr,duced Themselves into the outer layers oil the
hair and produced the appearance OF Whutnes''
Yet. though the vhteness was thus really due to
W hat mi .ht have been expected TO be only tenn,
porary cause the whiteuess persisted unuIm!Hisleu
as long as the cases remained under MS
and seemed likely TO be permanent, III seems JhaI
certain number OF bubbles OF AR are always pres
ent in every hIr and that the Color oil the tlI' 10
a certain extent, depends upon them. mus ID
~tricker's Human .aud Comparative PhysIoiogy
New ~yienham Socletys translation Ill., -oJ'
The Inherent CoIors presented by the hair de-
prud chiefly on the pigment contained IN the ha!r
cells that either exists IN the form OF granues or IS
euuabIy dutused. but the coior Oh Tue htIl aiso
deDruds on snail bubbles OF air that either occur
betweeu the c0rrical scales aud the medullaIy cells
or are found IN their interior
n this IS So aud the observations or the Nerman
medical man are correct, this sudden banchlng OF
the hair in comparatively young persons Is Que 10
an abnormal production of these bubbles OK an
WIN Te,-ar,l 10 j H. L. As explanation OF the
b1aurhiur of Marie AutOluntteS hAr m sluGir
Mont cannot Admit 10 10 Doe even possible. Marie
AutOluctte wa. only thrtr-rig1t at the time uI HeI
death and she h.d rather Light brown halr. lt Is
rare even ln the cI-e OF men, ioI hdr OF tAis coo4
10 become gray at so euly am age. ana women mar
undoubtedly retains it4 abundance ana us CuloI
much longer than that OF men. bur even suppo~iIg
Marie Automette had dyed her HAIR. anu were no
longer able To- apply the dye uetief one hs-l nor
a month Yf u.gl-, WJuu De suuc.eut 10 restore tLr
natural -rly upon the surface. Leu -. H. l.. o.
consult any competent Lail-DI, s3er, anu ne Wiz Do
toIl the same thing. Whom dye Is no Longer APP
pied. the hair resumes li7 hat"id' Co.oi al. ."o
roots on v. and "a considerable ums would e'ap'e
before the new roots would Dee long enough LOT lue
uaura. color 90 show Itself through tHe uyet
uugcr part of the hair OF which tle artificial Color
fer Iord Bea 0nsneld he may. of course, have
dyed Li- hair and beard, Is / feel sure That las
friend and tellow-danly, Lord Lyt'ou' utI' oul'
from my own personal observation, 40 NOT nelleNe
thar BE CId. 10 has been an amusement on mine Tor
some ycar. past when have mad nothing better 10
do-d-, e. T., IN railway carriages, AT ettuiHg
part e. Ccc.t0 study ploplt nan ana see "AeI-'I
il D., dyed OF not, and have ACQUIRED c)Ls,dela'!e
eNnerIrucr. 10 j. very dInicult 10 Keep the roofs
thnroupIlv well dyed. as they grow a uilIe every
dav and therefore, If one looks closely one can
.i,,,vs see some gray or white roots somewhere,
and these would he apparent even IN monograph
Then again. IN the sca-e oil "a man WIN
a swar,hy complexion, without color' Lie Loiu
Bes cons Id when the hair grows gray the COM
pleviou a.. % rule, grows gray likewise anu Coh>e-
rupufly If the har - dyed dlfh bIOWu OF u-dCA
The color OF Lord Beaconsued 81, the HALF no
io,.e.r suffs the complexion Now had au cppor-
tnoIfv OF closely examining Lord Beaconsheld from
"a short distance al puuAc meeting some l"uf or
live wears before lis death, aud -" uoJAlnE OF
III. .ort qb1it him. Besides this, j" was stated Jy
~ fo4st nrc newspaper cOrre.p pendent who had seen
cr.t r.,rou-ied tier his death tl1t there were
fry very few silver strcans 40 lis hair. Now no
silver streak. can possibly appear I'D any Aar ll!'O
has beer dyed. l. OHA'0-'
The following story WIS told me by one con
-t--.a 81 it, truth. 4 vouuy lady went 20 rance
IA .r,yrrress. bus ENDURED most cruel treatment
from her employers. she ultimately succeeded ia
T,tf,n1 away and came To- her married brother I'D
ANXIETY her relatives begged her 10 90 to bed AZ
once and defer Til. Che morrow the account OF her
suteriurs size Welded % their entIeatles. but on
cut-riu.t her bedroom the neat morning they found
tn moor SD erpr dead. She lay on her side AMI on
iif+inr her bead they found all her hair next the
NIL w perieCtIy white. Iuc medical men thought
mad She been permitted To relieve her mind OF all It's
sOrruws immediately on her return her lie ~ a-t
have been spared and hair remained unchanged.
ELAN.
was intimately acquainted with n lady whose
hair when she married at the axe OF twenty-5.A,
was raven black. When I saw her six months
after 10 was white a. snow. In the interval she
had made the terrible discovery that she had mar
Ted a maniac.
When / wa, in India and my hair was beginning
to fall OIL my n1tIve barber used 70 encourage me
by saving. Hiyh caste only 20 .ald" neither TINS
was HiulOI folklore. or simply 1atteEy TO sdAD'
could not tell o. - L.
TRCTH ~ THE LIVE-KILE CLUG