Superfluous hair and the means of removing it / by Balmanno Squire.
- Squire, Balmanno (Alexander John Balmanno), -1908.
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Superfluous hair and the means of removing it / by Balmanno Squire. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the direction of excess, constitute a species of undue hairiness which is distinct from the state already- described as that of “ more or less generalized undue hairiness.” Another kind of local undue hairiness is the pre¬ mature development in children of either sex of hair on those portions of the body which as a rule are occupied by hair in the adult only. This in rare instances may occur at a very early age indeed, and has been met with even at the age of five or six years. This condition has received the name of heterochronous Hirsuteness, or untimely undue hairiness. A still more striking kind of localized undue hairiness is the development of hair, on the faces of women, in the situations which, as a rule, are hair- covered in men only. As to this it must be stated that the lanugo, or fine downy hair, which covers nearly every part of the surface of the body both in men and in women is, in the case of every woman, more developed on the sides of the cheeks, on the chin, and on the upper lip, than it is elsewhere. This accentuated “ down,” although invisible to the ordinary view is always clearly perce]3tible on close inspection and under a side-light. In this country it is somewhat exceptional for it to attain a noticeable development; but in France more especially the south of France and in Spain, for example, this is by no means uncommon. Many young french and Spanish women present at the age of 20 a quite obvious little moustache, which gradually acquires strength as they grow older, so at](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30478418_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
