Superfluous hair and the means of removing it / by Balmanno Squire.

  • Squire, Balmanno (Alexander John Balmanno), -1908.
Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Superfluous hair and the means of removing it / by Balmanno Squire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the age of forty, or sometimes still earlier, it lias attained very notable proportions. Here at home one meets occasionally, although not so very often, with quite young women, on whose faces the usually invisible hut always accentuated down has attained a quite obvious development, without however assuming the character of a beard or of whiskers. In the female, as in the male, this kind of hirsute¬ ness is by no means always uniformly distributed over the regions which are liable to it. In some it affects chiefly the cheeks, in some the upper lip, in some the chin. Although always most obvious in dark-haired women, this condition is by no means confined to them and is to be met with in blondes also. I have listened at a private concert to a well- known lady singer, a blonde who was furnished with a very obvious moustache. This lady although past her first youth was still a young woman. However she made her appearance on the platform endowed with a fair-haired moustache of greater amplitude than many men can contrive to grow at any period of their lives. This moustache was neatly trimmed, so that it was of somewhat formal cut. In young women, who have sought my advice on account of superfluous growth of hair on the face, I have found that the growth has first become sufficiently marked to attract their attention usually at about the age of 24 years, but sometimes a year or two earlier. I have also noticed that, as a rule, in their case it is the part of the face corre-
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