The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-11-02
Badness in JAPAN.
epidemic OF THIS DISEASE IN
LAND OF MIKADo.
European Women Lose Their Hair
Wh'ls Residing Il the J.p.nese En-
/ pire-Asn's Boards Also FAIL Out

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Correspondence Of London, specta-
E|sstor: The following account Of an cpl
|Ssdemic. OF badness in Japan may in.
Isterest your readers. European women.
|smho are residents Of Japan must live
sSSlns q state Of constant dread, for, ac-.
'Sscording to reports from that country,
they may at any time lose that greatly
valued possession, the hair. A large
((ssnumber OF women have already suf-
Effered in this way; indeed, there was
IAN epidemic Of badness at Chiba last
fs.year,, and there base been an even
more serious n quite recently at.
Osaka, the same province where, it
Twill be remembered, an extensive cpl
Issdemic OF plague, which subsequently
assumed a formidable and alarming
~fscharacter, prevailed in the last months
EOfS1889 and at the very beginning of
1880. The clinical course Of the af-
Election under consideration offers
many points Of interest, and differs
Ieminently both as regards extent and
Icharacter from the occurrence of sud-
I|sden3 badness, say, for instance, after
Ienteric fever or any other acute fever
tattack. For 1t is stated that during
THAT epidemic Of badness the loss of
hair comes to women (and men also)
latter very little, If any. ~premonitory
warming. The scalp may, to. all APP
fpearances, be quite healthy, and, as far
ssas its external examination is con-
booyno6 mr. SynNrh3H cfrSnc Is 0cSv11 hA n To-
Itected, and there may be no symptoms
ieither of actual illness or even of
slight indisposition; but a oma may
bind when she combs her hair soon
after: rising in the morning, that it
falls out in remarkable quantities. and
soon she is partly. If not indeed quite,
Setbald. Or 1t may be that for some lit
tile time. as it has been observed in,
some OF the more acute cases, there
have been disturbances of vision, a
feeling Of vertigo, diminished appetite
and digestive troubles, but none of
Them being well defined or presenting
ANY definite character; it may, how
lever, be added that in some cases, at
Yeast, 1t was noted that a slight rise
lpf temperature has preceded the af-
shiction. The effects of the disease ok
hibit several interesting ~peculiarities.
4The bald patches r irregularly
lspread over the head. but the first
large one generally APPEARS on the
brown and extends down the back of
The head instead Of forward; thus it
may be that the back of the head is
butte bad and the front covered with
Aair-the opposite Of the course of
badness as we know it in Europe.
Then, also, mems boards are ravaged
Ia peculiar manner. The left. cheek.
Jay, may be completely bereft Of hair,
\ Ehile the rest Of the beard is as usual,
ks also is the honstache, which, for
yunately, is but slightly affected by
44he disease. Another point which may,
he noticed is that NEST OF the victims
Sf the epidemic are women, and more
children are attacked than men.
Strange to say it is men in the prime
IL life who have. to suffer, not these
who are advanced in years. The latter
sseem to be immune from the com
Ilaint, for no case is reported of a man
Who had white or gray hair suffering
.Sny loss, and such is the eccentricity
&c the disease, fair men suffer much,
Aore than dark men, and dark women
iMuch more than their blonde sisters.
The cause OF this curious epidemic is
very difficult to determine, indeed,
sihere is no. really satisfactory explain
Alton Of 1t. Some Of the native ply
ticians think that the Europeans are
Affected by the climate, and others say
hat the water is the u Of the
trouble, and a third party are in.
(ined to believe that the disease is
PARASITIC. Little wonder, then, in view
4 this uncertainty, that the treat
1ents tried for prevention as we'll as
dire. are very far from being efica-
4ous. THERE'S an opportunity for "a
MUSICIAN, native or otherwise. to dis
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