Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-01
BLISS FOR THE BALD-HEADS.
An Old Man Who Has Been Bald
for Twenty.F Five Years, Rubs
His Head With Coal-OiI,
And Now Welcomes His Long
Lost Hair.
Courier-JournaI, 81.


1t seems that the proper uses Of coal
oil have not been fully discovered
until recently, as the following occur
renee will show, and remarkable
held is now open to spectators. 1t
has probably never occurred to bald
headed man, as he sat reading BY coal
oil lamp in summer, with the flies and
mosquitoes tormenting the life out OF
him by taking Liberties with his bald.
ness, that surcease of all his sorrows
in this line could be found in the
liquid which caused his lamp to burn.
Nor has it, probably, ever dawned on
the public in general that coal oil was
cure for badness. At 425 Gray
street, between Preston and Jackson.
lives Mr.. Frank Corrigan, a
very we'll known citizen. Mr..
Corrigan is in his SEVENTEEN
year, and, like number of persons of
his age, has been very bald. Nearly
thirty years ago his hair commenced
coming out, and in about five years
his head was completely bare, save a
margin Of hair around the base of his
head, the rest being so bald that not a
single hair was perceptible to mar its
completeness. The edge or circle of
hair around the lower part of his head
remained untouched, however, except
by age, which turned it to a snowy
whiteness, and OF late years he has
been in the habit OF wearing it very
long, so as to be able to comb it up
over the top Of his head, and hide the
baerness somewhat. About two weeks
ago he visited one of his sons. who
induced him to have the fringe of hair
cut of short, and he did so. At that
time there was a few small sores on
the top of his bead, end, being some.
what old fashioned in his methods of
doctoring, he came to the conclusion
that coal oil or petroleum would heal
up the sores. SO he procured some in
its crude form, and bathed his head in
it several times, allowing it to dry
instead of wiping it off. The result
was a most unexpected and happy
one.
In a few days the surface on top of
his head, which had been unbroken in
its baroness for twenty. five years, be-
gan to put on new appearance, and
fresh growth OF hair sprouted, GOV.
ering the entire head. The new crop
of hair grew rapidly and finely, and
now his entire head is covered with a
remarkably fine suit of hair, very thick
aud about all inch long, and as white
as the fringe of hair which remained
on his head all along. The remarka.
BILE transformation has created great
interest among all his friends, who
regard the matter with much won
der.
All Of the bald headed men must
not go into ecstacies, hswever, as the
rule has its exceptions and works both
ways. Some time ago little girl liv
ing in the same neighborhood was
troubled with some irritation of the
scalp and had to use a liniment to
wash it with. The liniment was kept
in cupboard in a large bottle, and
one day while in hurry she got hold
of a large bottle containing coal oil,
and washed her head thoroughly in it
before she discovered her mistake.
The result was most disastrous, as her
hair commenced falling out, and in a
few weeks every vestige of it had dis
appeared, leaving her cranium as bald
as the veritable onion, and it vas a
long time before the hair was partially
restored.