Daily camera., 1897-06-03
BADNESS A DISEASE.
A French Doctor Says It May Be
Prevented
The Contagion Scattered by BARRIERS
ON Whose Implements the
Microbes Find LodE-
mont.

Now the real cause of badness has
been discovered, and French derma-
toIogist, DR.. LabouraId, suggests a
remedy. By the use of this remedy, he
says, badness can be prevented, and in
the next generation it may be unknown.
Can the awful consequence of such a
discovery be imagined? Can people of
this generation contemplate such so
cial condition as a total lack of bald
ness? What will the ballet girldo with
out that inspiring row of shining pates
just beyond the footlight? What will
the funny man do, deprived of his fund
of baldheaded jokes? Hair will grow
in vulgar abundance.
1t has been known for some time
among medical men that badness is a
disease. 1t has even been supposed to
be due to specific microbe. In fact,
such an extraordinary amount of evil
dence in favor of the theory has been
accumulated that the idea is now gen.
orally accepted. DR.. Labourand's in
vestigation in the subject has been eX-
haustive and of such a conclusive ma
ture as to add heavy reinforcements to
the already existing microbic theory.
He believes that the disease is con-
tagious and that the cause of contagion
and the spreading of microbes is due
to the BARRIERS instruments. He pre-
sents strong evidence in support of this
theory.
According to Labourand the typical
diseased hair is found at the edge CT a
constantly enlarging bald spot. 1t is
the stump of what was once long hair.
1t is shaped like an Interrogation point;
it grows less in diameter toward the
root, and has lost its color, being either
gray or white. The normal pith canal
is wanting at the root, which is itself
ITO longer dubious and followed for the
papilla, but distorted in shape and
hardened. Within the root sac little
bulb may be seen developing if ex-
amined under the magnifying glass. 1t
is this which is said to be the cause of
the disease.
In the good hair this bulb or utricule
is full and closed, and contains in its
center compact clusters of microbes, a
culture of the smallest bacillus known.
AS the microbe natures it may become
one one-hundredth of an inch in width.
is bent or slightly curved in shape, like
comma, blunt at the ends and slightly
swollen in the center. Each bulb con-
tains millions of these bacilli, and to
them is attributed the cause of badness.
Investigation shows that by the time
the hair is dead and the root and
rebaceous glands useless the microbe
which produced this effect is gone.
Thus remedies applied to the bald spot
in the hope of making hair grow again
are vain. For that glistening, white
desert is totally barren of productive
roots, and the oily sacs are dried for
ever.
However, the progress of badness
can be impeded. This is accomplished
by disinfection of the skin at the edge
and in the neighborhood of the patch
by means of an effectual, microbe-de-
stroying tonic.
If the 1nicrobe of badness is an actual
fact, as seems fairly probable, and if
the prevalence of the condition is due
to contagion, as is the reasonable and
logical deduction, badness can be pre-
vented and the first stages of the dis
ease arrested by intelligent treatment.
So, in time, badness may disappear
from humanity.-Chicago Times-Her-
aid,