The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27

growing badness and the desire to find
a way of restoring his own hair. Later.
after he realized the enormity of the
good such a discovery as he sought
would do in the world, his ambition
became larger and almost every work
ing hour was devoted to some new
phase of his search for a method of
removing the hair bacteria.
Subjects living In almost every eli
mate In the world were employed by
him, at his own expense, for demon
stration purposes. He travelled widely
so as to familiarize himself with tn.
hair troubles peculiar to different
races. and his work in the San Fran
cisco laboratory is an epitome of all
this research, and its rewards are to
be the satisfaction these II years Of
work Is to bring him.
One of the advantages OF the Migge
treatment is that 1t may be applied at
the patients home. Individual prescrip-
tion is made in every case. after cul-
lures are made. Thirty-nine different
classified tions OF hair bacteria have
been made by Professor Migge, and
each requires a different treatment.
The different stages of progress toward
complete relief are watched by the lab
oratory in each case until new, healthy
hair takes the place of what has fallen,
or that which has been found un-
healthy.
Many interesting cases-some Of
them new even to the scientist himself
have gone to the Migge laboratories
on the seventh floor of The Call build
ing for the hope that has been given
out from there. meteorological re-
search would profit from treatises on
some of these cases. but 1t has been a
custom in the laboratories here to
spare its visitors from being made the
subjects of even technical discussion.
Professor Migge has declined to speak
of the individual ca ses which have come
to him, even though of sufficient inter-
est for textbook Incorporation.
WIDE FIELD FOR THE NEW
TREATMENT
1T is my hope said the bacteriolo-
gist to his visitors ito distribute my
knowledge into every home where il is
needed-where it will accomplish good
results. I hardly dared hope, during
the years spent in my Laboratories
seeking for the discovery the public
has become acquainted with, that there
was such a field for it's adoption as has
been opened before me. 1 knew. yes.
that 1t would be welcomed by many
men and women, but I did not dream
that such great percentage of the
whole people had need of it.
L am not so familiar with the great
laboratories of the United States as I
am with those of Germany and Aus
tria, where l spent the greatest part OF
my life, but l do know that in almost
every laboratory there has been some
part of the time spent during the last
20 years in a search for some method
of destroying the hair bacteria 1t had
been accepted in many of them as an
almost hopeless task, for even the few
kinds of hair bacteria that had been
successfully isolated had been found to
thrive and multiply even after hours
of cooking No way was found to kill
even the bacteria itself, much less the
spores which gave out fresh organ
fsms even many months after they had
been, seemingly robbed of life. 1t was
personal reason that first inspired
my quest-but 1t soon became a more
worthy ambition"
Professor Migge's personal feeling is
best expressed in the words of the
message he sent TO other laboratories.
part of which were:
My discovery is. first. a method Of
submitting these bacteria to culture.
something that has heretofore bafF1ed
science. and second, a treatment that
kills the microbe spore, leaving the
hair roots healthy and strong and pre-
pared to supply the head with per-
fno
treatment, which 1 have developed at
the cost of IL years and almost the
entire of my private fortune. I wish
now to present the world. with the
knowledge that it will forever Danish
all fear of badness as fast as men and
woman can take advantage of 1t.
Unfortunately. l am not able to re-
store lost hair where the hair roots
already have been absolutely killed
But this condition is not often found
In the human head. 1t takes many
years and somewhat violent infection
for bacteria to completely kill the
roots. Usually, in cases of advanced
badness, there is sufficient life left in
the roots to make the treatment sue
cessful in restoring, at the very least
a moderately thick covering of hair
Wher, badness is only partial, not yet
affecting the entire scalp can safely
promise a complete new growth. The
treatment is not inconvenient and
takes from but three to six weeks or
dinarily to effect a cure and start the
new growth of healthy hair"
1t is the future generations that will
have the most to thank the Migge dis
coveries for, for it is these future gen
erations that will enjoy the full fruits
of the scientists labors. The bacteria
discoveries have removed all suppos'-
tion that unhealthy conditions of the
hair and it's roots can be hereditary,
and the best accomplishment during the
life of this generation will be the dis
tribution of the treatment to those who
already have hair trouble to conquer
In the future the scientific treatment
will be applied before hair begins to
fall. 1t is only to the present genera
ton that the remarkable work of the
bacteriologist and pathologist needs
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