The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-11
Let,ing go the unworthy things that
PLANTS M HAIR.
Austrian Doctor Perf~Cts a Process
For Covering Bald Heads

many UNSUCCESSFUL aIlcFnptS have
been made TO cure h~aldness BY the
implantation of hair: but a hair
planting Inethod employed by Or.
SZekely in budapest is said to be a
practical one by Prof. Iavas. The
method is translated as follows from
Die Umschau in The Scientific Amer
lean current issue:
The end of q gold wire 1900 inch
in diameter is bent to form a loop.
barely visible to the naked eye. which
is threaded with a woman's hair Of
the desired color, soft, fine. and from
eight to twelve inches long. The wire
is introduced into a short, fine Pravaz
hypodermic needle and drawn for
ward until the threaded loop is just
inside the point of the needle. n
wire is then bent back and cut TO a
length Of one-twelfth to one-eighth
inch, forming q tiny hook. Several
hundred needles are prepared in his
a and are thoroughly sterilized be-
fore they are used.
THE part of the scalp which is to
be planted is sterilized and made in
sensitive by appropriate treatment.
The needle is inserted normally to
the surface, but is then inclined.
thrust Forward under the skin and
turned through an angle of $50 de-
grees. 1t is then carefully with
drawn, leaving the double hair an
chored by the hook in the subcuta-
neous tissue. In this way pairs Of
hairs are implanted at distances of
1-25 inch, SO that about 625 pairs. or
1880 single hairs, are planted in a
square inch. In a single treatment.
occupying thirty to forty-five minutes,
400 or 500 hairs can be planted.
"The slight inflammation which de-
velops around the sterilized gold wire
quickly subsidies, and is succeeded by
q scar, which attaches the hair still
more firmly to the scalp. The pune
ture made by the needle is soon COW
cred by new skin. The soreness caus-
ed by the inflammation is %trifling, and
is scarcely appreciable after ten or
twelve days. | have not observed, in
:, a single case, any liberation. necrosis.
or even severe inflammation. In
| every case the hair, if in perfect N
dition 1t the time of planting, re-
NAMED firmly attached and showed no
tendency to break off at the wire or
, elsewhere. The wire, in all proba-
5 bility, becomes imbedded in newly
= formed connective tissue, for it causes
no pain when the scalp is massaged.
2 Hitherto, operations have beer
confined to the scalp. The number o
4 hairs implanted ranged from 10, . t.
. 1000. From $1,000 to 10000 hair:
: suffice to cover completely q balC
= crown, surrounded by a fringe o.
natural hair, but as many as $4,000
t may be required for an entirely balC
y head. Even in this case little more
e than fifteen grains of gold is cor
sumed.
1.-The implanted hair presents 81
natural an appearance that it deceive:
= the ordinary observer, and betrays it
: character, even to the specialist, onl.
by the fact that the hairs are asso
ciated in pairs. 1t car be brushed
e cOmbed, and washed, and it should b.
oiled occasionally in order to presery'
its sOftness and gloss. In short. thi
method Of planting hair is hygieniC
cosmetic, and practical. The per
manence Of the result is indicated b,
the fact that in one case. where tn
whole crown of the head was thu
covered, the implanted hair has re
manned in perfect condition for sever
years"
In this connection it may be in
teresting to note the Manipulating sys
tenn developed by one Of our country
men-Dr. Jacob H. Parsegan-resid
" ing in San Francisco. Instead o
q looping the hair under thu skin h
o punctures the scalp and plants tn
hair in the puncture. A special in
strument is used, capable Of operatinI
at & rate of sixty insertions a minute
If desired. Hairs Of considerabl
is length are fed through the instrument
gauge adjustable as desired.
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