The anatomy and physiology of the hair : with directions for preventing baldness, removing dandruff, and preserving the natural beauty and softness of the hair / by William Bogle, artist in hair.

  • Bogle, William (Artist in hair)
Date:
1846
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The anatomy and physiology of the hair : with directions for preventing baldness, removing dandruff, and preserving the natural beauty and softness of the hair / by William Bogle, artist in hair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    known to turn grey in one night, by mental anxiety or deep- seated grief, which centres in the heart, blanches the cheek, and makes the color forsake its proper channel, so that when the system resumes its usual vocation, the hair being of so deli¬ cate a structure, it seldom finds its proper passage back to the hair ; hence, anything that estranges the coloring matter from the hair, is the cause, or basis, of grey hair. But I agree with Lepelletier, that the color may forsake the hair without affecting its nutrition. How many heads do we see bountifully supplied with hair, yet perfectly grey. Grey hair in old age, is generally caused by the contraction of the skin, or by the canals for the passage of the fluid being obliterated. Examine a hair of this description with a powerful micro¬ scope, and it will be seen notched like an old tree, Thus, knowing the disease, we can with more certainty arrive at the cure. The ingredients contained in my Hyperion Fluid are peculiarly adapted to this purpose, both on account of their tonic and stimulating qualities, and thoroughly cleansing the pores of the skin of scurf and dandruff, causing a healthy ac¬ tion in the blood vessels, nerves, &c., which feed the hair, making nature discharge her proper functions without any impediment, and thereby preventing both baldness and grey hair. Scurf and dandruff are formed from the perspiration, and for want of a healthy action to throw it off the head, in con- i sequence of which, it remains on the skin, covers the pores, and forms scurf and dandruff, attended with headaches and baldness, for the prevention of which observe my directions accompanying the Hyperion.