The human hair : its structure, growth, diseases, and their treatment / by Hermann Beigel.

  • Hermann Heinrich Beigel
Date:
1869
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The human hair : its structure, growth, diseases, and their treatment / by Hermann Beigel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    than it is at present. This does not only hold good in respect to natural but also to arti- ficial hair, which was used not only by the Egyptians, but also by the Greeks, the Cartha- ginians, and especially by the Romans, amongst whom the sale of human hair, particularly the blond hair of Germany, was an ordinary species of traffic. Dyeing the hair, too, was much prac- tised by the Romans, and a kind of gold-dust was used by the ladies who did not adopt borrowed locks. Josephus relates that King Solomon's horseguards daily strewed their heads with gold-dust which glittered in the sun.* In the present time the artificial hair trade has assumed great proportions, and I think the subject is interesting enough to justify the following extract from an article in the Daily News ;— The statistics of the false hair trade furnish curious evidence of the increased and increasing artificiality of the age. Male wigs have gone out of fashion, and it is the enormous quantities of false hair used by * Josephus, Antiq., viii. 7.
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