The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-12


feet the Hair-some Interesting Cases
Related by a Doctor Who Has Investi-
gated the Subject.
The grayness of the hair commences at
I the hair bulbs, where the cells are pro.
duced, and rises upward to the tip. 1t Is
caused by deficiency and the degenera
ton respectively of the pigment matter.
Tho coloring stuff either gives out or retro
grades. The chemist can perform the
Same for you in an incredibly short time
by simply soaking your raven or auburn
locks removed from the head in alcohol or
other.
An instance of accidental hair bleaching
in Switzerland came under my notice. A
peasant boy had undertaken to rob an
eagles nest of it's young by hanging over
a mountain precipice, his comrades dan
Cling him on "a rope. To protect himself
against possible attacks by the old birds
he carried long sword.
The boy had captured his prize and was
about TO be pulled up when the parents
IF the little ones, attracted by their brood S
cries, attacked him with claws and beaks.
To ward them off the young fellow struck
out with his sword, and, pcrceiving GER
tain pull in the rope, saw that he hid hit
the hawser, which hung only by one strand.
Terror seized him. He might be plunged
in the abyss every second, a prey to tho
ferocious feathered flends. There seemed
no hope whatever till his friends, by a
quick and well calculated action, succeeded
in landing the seemingly doomed boy safe
ly, and drink of kirch soon revived him.
But when he took off his cap to throw it,
in joyous fashion, into the air it was seen
that his abundant brown hair had turned
white from root to tip.
Landois of the Greifswald clinic had q
patient suffering from delirium tremens
who saw rats and other animals constant
ly running about him. He was extremely
nervous and when on the fourth night of
his arrival in the institute one Of the ply
sicians entered the ward suddenly, he be-
came so terrified that he wrapped himself
up in his blanket while his teeth chartered
and his limbs trembled. Next morning it
was seen that three-fourths of his hair on
his head and beard had become gray. DIR.
Virohow among other authorities investi-
gated the case and gave it as his opinion
that degeneration of the pigment matter
had nothing to do with the change.
Medical reports set forth that patients
suffering from diseases of the nerves in
the head become gray at the very spots
where pains manifested themselves. This
change in the majority of cases took place
slowly; In some cases it occurred over
night.
DIR. Reinhard noticed several cases in
which parties suffering from consumption
experienced II change In the color of tho
hair from light to black; he also told of a
blond who lost her hair after having had
typhus fever. After several months new
growth of hair appeared, but it was jet
black.
A young man IS years old, serving in
the German army, had been discovered in
the act of hazard playing by his chief. He
feared dishonorable dismissal and spent 20
days in dreadful anticipation. When finally
his case was passed on, his colonel decided
not to punish the young fellow on condi-
ton that he promised never again TO touch
a card. After it was all over cut n bunch
of hairs from the culprit's head TO subject
them to microscopical investigation.
In this connection IL should be stated
that the growth of hair allows of measure
ment day by day. At an average young
peoples hair grows at the rate Of 10 lines
ne lines make one inch) per month, but
there are exceptions. My young friends
hair, according to previous Investigations,
grew only AT ne rate of one-fourth of
line per day. Taking this for the basis of
my examination it was easy to determine
on what particular days certain portions
of the hair, which cut from his head,
had formed. found that, beginning with
the particles formed on July and termi-
mating with the formations of July "a, the
hair had changed from brown to reddish
and light blush tints, increasing In inten-
sity until, under the microscope, 1t APP
peared almost a yellowish white.
The young mans diary showed that
during that period he had gambled, losing
steadily. Consequently his nervous ex-
element grew apace. On the gath It
reached its height, and then he found
himself vis-a-vis with Nemesis, personifed
by his superior officer. After that followed
q period of quiet resignation, during
which the hair assumed It's natural color,
but as the day of judgment grew near In
the second week of August the tint chang
ed again from brown to brown yellow and
blush green. The inference Is obvious.
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