The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-09
BALD HEADS DUE TO NEGLECT.
If Scalp Were Kept Clean, Falling
Hair Would BE Rare.

Hair Would BE Rare.
''Seven Clues to Baldpate' is the
title under which Dr. William P. Cum
ningham, assistant dermatologist at
Harlem Hospital and clinical assist
ant at the New York Skin and Can
Ger hospital, discusses badness, its
causes, symptoms, prevention, and
remedies in the current issue of the
Medical Record.
DR.. Cunningham refers to the
covert badness of men and the
covert badness of women" and says
that efforts to prevent badness, or
badness in spots, that is caused by
few diseases is practically hope
less, says the New York Times. But
these diseases are comparatively
rare, he says, and states that the
commonest cause of vanishing hair
is "quite amenable to proper man
agement.'' In the treatment of his
subject DR.. Cunningham devotes con-
siderable space to efforts made by
women to hide approaching badness.
"Woman's crowning glory is her
hair, one of her greatest griefs is to
see it co." he says. $50 keenly does
she feel it's slow deletion that she
will save and wind and hoard each
falling strand, to weave, in that
much dreaded day when badness
yawns, the cunning false present
ment of crown. So conscious is
she of the need of this that she will
even buy the hair of other heads and
heap it in profusion on her own. To
her the preservation of her hair is
something vital and innate.
"Her consort, while bedecked by
nature with less lnxuriant growth,
& is nevertheless concerned about it's
permanence, especially as the years
forbode a a;tonsure. He notes with
marked anxiety the thinning at the
top, and ingeniously manipulates the
more resistant flaments to hide the
shining scalp. This artifice is usual
ly futile. No eye is deceived by it
except his own.
s1This aversion to yielding to the
ravages of time is not always
prompted by discreditable vanity.
Bald heads and gray hair are regard
ed as the evidences of the degenera-
tive changes coming with advancing
age and associated with slowing
up of bodily activity. Viewed in
Nthis light, they are detriment to
the seeker for employment. Often
times their significance is utterly
misconstrued. The badness or the
grayness may not be due to age, but
disease or idiosyncrasy. But, in gen
eral terms, it is admitted that the
possession of a bald or whitening
head is in most of the paths Of in
dustry very undesirable asset.
Thus, the preservation of the hair
from premature decadence is mat
ter of very serious moment, and we'll
worth our earnest consideration"
In discussing the ease with which
the commonest cause of badness
could be removed, DR.: Cunningham
says that if the scalp were cleaned
sas regularly as the teeth premature
falling of the hair would be the
rarest of complaints.
tsBut the sober TRUTH he says, lis
that with few exceptions attention
to the scalp is confined to periodic
or episode washings, with a tend
ency to aggravate the incipient dis
ease" The practice of brushing the
scalp briskly with good stiff i'm
! plement will stimulate the blood and
nerve supply and prevent the de-
velopment of the condition causing
dandruf and falling hair, he says.
This Is the cause of most badness.
tt is disease Of the sebaceous
glands, which open into the hair
follicles and secrete an oily sub
stance, and dandruff results when
the glands become infected and COM
: mence to exude an inlammatory sub
stance into the follicles to such an
extent that it dries into flakes.
Another symptom of the same
bald pate causing disease is too much
oil in the hair, instead of the. ap-
pearance of dandruff. This is also
due to the fact that the little seba-
ceous glands are not working prop
erly. The condition is very hard to
s.cure," the physician says, partly
because of the disinclination of pa
tients to pursue a course of treat
ment that is tedious and for long
time apparently unavailing.
DIR. Cunningham emphasizes the
fact that water should not be used
in connection with the frequent