The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1901-11-01
BADNESS IN JAPAN.
EPIDEMIC OF THIS DISEASE IN
LAND or MlKADo. d.
European Women Lose Their Hair
while Reading In the Japanese Em-
plrs--Mens Boards Also Fall out
Speculation as TO Cause.

Correspondence OF London specta-
tor: The following account OF an cpl
demic OF badness in Japan may in
terest your readers. European women
who are resld nts OF Japan must live
In state OF constant dread, for. ac-
Cording TO reports from that country,
they may at any time lose that greatly
valued possession, the hair. A large
number OF women have already suf-
fcrod In this way; indeed. there was
an epidemic OF badness at Chlba last
year. and there base been an even
more serious one quite recently at
Osaka, the same province where, II
will be remembered. an extensive cpl
demic OF plague, which subsequently
assumed n formidable and alarming
character. prevailed In the last months
OF 1889 and at the very beginning OF
1900. The clinical course OF the af-
fection under consideration offers
many points OF interest, and differs
eminently both as regards extent and
character from the occurrence OF sud
den badness, say. for instance, after
enteric fever or any other acute fever
attack. For II ia stated that during
that epidemic OF badness the loss OF
hair comes 10 women land men also)
after very little. II any. premonltory
warning. The scalp may. to all APP
pearances. be quite healthy, and, as far
as It's external examination Is con-
cerned, no morbid signs could be de-
tected, and there may be no symptoms
either OF actual illness or even OF
slight lndlspositlon; but a woman may
find when she combs her hair soon
after rising in the morning. that II
falls out In remarkable quantities, and
soon she Is partly. II not indeed quite.
bald. Or It may be that for some lit
tic time. as It has been observed IN
some OF the more acute cases, there
have been disturbances OF vision, n
feeling OF vertigo. diminished appetite
and digestive troubles. but none OF
them being well deAned or presenting
any definite character; Il may. how
ever, be added that in some cases, at
least, II was noted that slight rise
OF temperature has preceded the af-
Fiction. The effects OF the disease ox-
hibit several interesting pecullaritlea,
Tho bald patches ara irrogularly
spread over the head. but the FIRST
large one generally Appears on the
crown and extends down tho back OF
tho head instead OF forward; thus II
may be that the back OF the head is
quite bad and the front covered with
hair-the opposite OF the course OF
badness as we know II in Europe.
Then. also. mems boards are ravaEed
in peculiar manner. The left cheek,
say. may be completely bereft OF hair,
while the rest OF the beard Is as usual,
as also Is the moustache. which. for
tunately. Is but slightly affected by
the disease. Another point which may
be noticed Is that most OF the victims
Of the epidemic are women. and more
children are attacked than men.
Strange to say It is men in the prime
OF life who have TO suffer, not those
who are advanced in years The latter
seem 20 be immune from the com
plant, for no case is reported OF a man
who had white or gray hair suffering
any loss. and such is the eccentricity
OF the disease. fair men suffer much
more than dark mon. and dark women
much more than their blonde sisters.
The cause OF this curious epidemic Is
very difficult 10 determine, indeed,
there is no really satisfactory explain
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