Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-08-25
NO MORE BALD HEADS
A ONSTANTINOPLE PHYSICIAN DIS
COVERS A REMARKABLE REMEDY.

Ploughs the Head with a Scarifier, Cut
ting the Scalp. and Then Plants the
Hair Like a Farmer Would Plant o
willow Wand.
DR.. Menahem Hodara, of CONSTANT
nople, announces that he can take
fragment of hair and, by implanting ii
on the scalp of a bald patient, make
the meagre clipping take root and grow
into a long, heavy hair, with a root OF
it's own.
He says that he has tried it upon sew
eral patients and has afterward demon
strated its success by microscopical ex.
animation.
Every one knows that bit of willow
twig, when stuck into the earth and let
alone, will probably throw out roots
and in time grow into a tree. Even
dried-up looking sticks have been
known to accomplish this.
DR.. Hodara virtually says that hair
will do the same thing. He does not
transplant it in any sense of the word.
He does not take hair that is attached
to skin, or that has its root and follcle
entire. His disco very is not the result
of any mere grating experiment. DR..
Hodara says, in effect, that he can take
the clippings of hair as they fall be-
each of these bits of hair can cause a
new hair to grow.
1t has long been known that the hui
man hair was a composite organism
and that it closely resembled skin in its
structure, but it has never been thought
that it contained within itself the pow
er to initiate growth. 1t has always
been believed that it depended for its
life and existence on the nutrient YES
sells which supplied it's follicle, or
sheath.
DR.. Hodaras discovery means that
each hair, or fragment of hair, must
contain within itself the same power
that resides in a willow twig-the cell
producing capability.
His discovery was the result of pure
experiment. 1t happened that two of
his patients were suffering from a scalp
disease known as "favus." which is
prevalent in the Eastern countries. Its
cause is a minute fungus; its usual re-
suit is absolute badness of the patch
of scalp attacked by disease.
Careful examination of the scalp on
the bald area show ed that the hair was
non-existent. Microscopical examina-
ton of section of the scalp showed
also that the folholes of the hair were
empty, shrivelled and dead.
Before beginning operation, DR.. Ho-
dara carefully washed a selected part
of the patients head on which hair
was luXuriant, with an antiseptic So
luton. This was repeated until the
hair was thoroughly sterilized. Then
about fifty hairs were clipped off with
a pair of scissors and were laid in soak
in a neutral solution of sodium chlor-
ide, ~! --7.-'..".. .r.i
The next thing done was to render
the bald spot on the scalp thoroughly
aseptic This was done by almost the
same measures as those used to steril-
ize the hair.
After applying an anaesthetic spray
to the surface to be operated upon Dr.
Hodara picked up an instrument known
as scarifier and drew it horizontally
across the bald patch. The result was
six little cuts through the surface of
the scalp. Changing the direction Of
the instrument, DR.. Hodara then made
another set of missions at right angles,
until the surface of the scalp appeared
to be cross-hatched with little cuts.
The slight hemorrhage which result
ed was easily controlled, and DR.. Ho-
dara then took up a pair of small for
ing up one by the middle. he held it
in the forceps while he clipped it with
scissors at each end until the resulting
bristle was about an inch and half
long and was blunt at each end.
A quick look through a powerful
lens showed the doctor that he was
holding the hair right end up, for a
hair has a skin to it that lies in scales
like the bark of a palm tree Then he
selected a place where two cuts crossed
and into the incisiOn inserted the hair.
Wherever the cuts crossed each other
on the bald spot DR.. HOdara inserted
a clipped hair, and then inserted some
of those that remained in the inter-
mediate spaces. When be had finished
the bald spot was sparsely covered
with little brstles of hair.
Then a dressing was applied, and the
patient was instructed under no cir
cumstaQces to remove or even disturb