Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-27

THAT third type of professional man
belongs to the top of the professional
ladder the world over. Their brains are
FLIED with surging ideas; there Is no
rest for the gray matter within their
skulls; before blood nutrition can get
| to the hair it is cut off and subverted
| to the use of the brain until the logi-
cal result of years of this is either
gray hair or no hair at ALL There Is a
disposition to badness instead of to
erayness, but in many ways the two
conditions are brought about by the
same causes.
In general the man who thinks will be
gray before the man who works without
thinking To the extent that the thinker
| fails to take exercise. Is sedentary in ms
work and habits, and allows his system to
lapse in tone, just to that extent he will
become prematurely gray.
| "As a factor in grayness, however, he
rodity has more to do with 1T than any
thing else in his own family everybody
mas been in the habit of getunE either gray
or bald at 40 and as a result am a good
| Logically and naturally gray heirs may
be expected to appear on the temples at %
to 40 years old. Brown-Sequard Is an au-
thority for the statement that the first OF
these gray hairs turn white In night.
| His observation is based upon the white
threads that appeared in his own beard
|
| covered single white hair that was not
there the night before. He not only pulled
1t out, but before going to bed again he
made a careful search for other white
hairs. Satisfied that none was left, he
Invent to sleep again, only to find that while
he slept two other hairs had turned white
in the same area where he had marked
| the first
| In this way DR.. Brown-Sequard became
to an extent sponsor for the story of the
man whose hair turned white in a night,
| fri ht to no CT
| which biologists in all time have
SHE'D at, but which at the same time has
been on much stronger footing than any
thing in the line of ghosts, sea serpents or
lmermaids. At the present time, perhaps
nothing in medical history is more tangl-
bic on this subject than the report of an
Experience in the Medical Press number
of years ago. The doctor says:
'On February 10, 1859, the command of
General Franks, operating in the southern
| gagement near the village of Chamba,
meeting body of rebels. Several of the
Ienemy We're taken prisoners, among them
years who was taken back before the au-
lthoritieS to be questioned. l then had oc-
lcasion to observe IN the man, at the mo-
ment which they took place, the events
that / propose to relate.
1.-The prisoner seemed to be for the first
time conscious of his danger when, de-
prived of his uniform and completely nude
he saw himself surrounded by soldiers. He
IbeGan to tremble violently. terror and de-
Ispair were depicted to the questions that
were addressed to him, he seemed actual
our very eyes and in the space Of scarcely
half an hour, his hair, which we had seen
to be brilliant black, turned gray uni
who had made the capture of the prisoner,
called out, He is turning gray!' and so
called our attention to singular phe-
InOmenon which we as well as many others
were then able to follow in all its phases
i The discoloration of the hair took place
gradually, but 1t became complete and
genera! in the short space of time men,
There have been stories of the hair turn
ling white from terror, told for generations,
but this case cited by Parry is regarded as
one of the most circumstantial of the kind
Il That hair has turned white from paralysis
Is recognized; that deep mental trouble
may precipitate it is certain; and in the
the physical reason has not been hard to
find. In every case the bulb at the root of
the hair has been engored with blood and
pigment indicating that the hair had been
drained, and in the whitened portions not
only in colorns matter absent, but mi
mute cir cells haye taken It's place.
| Two stories of hair turned white in a
night have been credited to the old Boston
Medical and Surgical Journal of 1851. Each
OF these stories Is vouched for by compe-
G 9ehi authorlty one was OF a miner in
was left alone In camp while his comrades
went away washing gold. They came
PACK In the early morning to find that a
sick man for hours and that before the
creature left the hair of the victim had
turned white. He had not been touched
by the animal however
The other case cited was that of young
miner who staked LOO worth of gold dust
t upon the turn of a single card. All day
the young man had been full of excite
ment, and in the gambling game with
which he closed the evening he was nery-
GUS almost beyond control of himself. In
the flnal turn of the card he won, but the
next morning he was surprised to see that
ms mar had turned from black to white
with most men who are gray it is wor-
.ny OF note that in cutting the hair the
Srayness Is diminished, showing that the
mars toward the ends are whittier than
they are next to the scalp. Sometimes it
mas chanccd that person who for some
reason has become prematurely gray NAV
get back the color of his hair and beard.
mere sickness has been responsible, a
restoration to health not infrequently re-
lliCleS. -'i- Iva