The morning times., 1897-01-31
NO MORE BALD HEADS.
a French Doctor Says There Is a
Way to Prevent Them,

way I'd
Now the real cause of badness has been
discovered. and French dermatologiSt,
Dr. Labourand, suggests a remedy. By
the use OF this remedy, he says, badness
can be prevented, and in the next genera
ton it may be unknown.
Can the awful consequence of such
discovery be imagined? Can people OF
this generation contemplate such So
ciety condition as total lack of badness?
What will the ballet girl do without that
inspiring row of shining pates Just be-
yond the footlights? What viii the funny
man do, deprived of his fund of baldhead
jokes? Hair Will grow in vulgar abund-
ance.
II has been known for some time among
medical men that badness is a disease
1t has even been supposed to be due to
specific microhe. In fact, such an ex-
traordirary amount of evidence in favor
of the theory has been accumulated that
the idea is now generally accepted DR.
Lahourand's investigation in the subject
has been exhaustive and Of Sach q con
elusive nature as To add heavy reinforce
mcnts to the already existing nIicrobic
theory. He believes that the disease is
contagious and the. the cause OF conta-
gion and the spreading of microbes is due
To the BARRIERS Instruments He presents
strong evidence in support OF this theory
According to Labourand, tie typical dis
eased hair is found ut the edge Of a con
stanuy enlarging bald spot. II is tie
stump OF what was once long hair. Ii
is shaped like an interrogation point. 1t
grows less in diameter toward tie root.
and has lost its color, being either gray
or white.
The Lornal pith canal is wanting at the
root which is itself no longer hulbous and
followed for the papilla, bur distorted in
shape and hardened. Within the root sac
a little bulb may be seen developing if eX-
amined under the magnifying glass. II is
this whichis said TO be the cause of the dis
ease,
In the good hair this bulb or utr:cle is
| full and closed, and contains in its center
compact clusters of microbes, culture of
tile smallest bacillus known. AS the mi
| crobe natures it may become one one-hun-
| dredth of IN inch in width 1t is bent or
| slightly curved in shape, like comma
blunt at the ends and slightly swollen at
| of these baclli, and to them S attributed
the cause of badness.
| Investigation shows that by the time the
| hair is dead and the root and raLaceOus
| gland useless the microbe which produced
| tlis effect is gone. Thus remedies ap-
| Piled to the bald spot in the hope OF making
| hair grow again are vain; for that glistcn-
| ing. white desert is totally barren of pfa-
ductive roots, and the oily sacs are dried
| forever
| However the progress of badness can he
impedcd This is accomplished by disin-
fection Of the skin at the edge ana in the
neighborhood of the patch by means Of an
! effectual MISUNDERSTANDING tonic.
| If the microbe Of badness is an actual
fact, as seems fairly probable, and il the
| prevalence OF tie condition is due to con
| tagion, as is the reasonable and logical de
duction. badness can he prevented and the
| first stages of the disease arrested by N
| telIigent treatment. So, in time, bald
i ness may disappear from humanity.