An historical, philosophical and practical essay on the human hair, combining a full and copious description of its growth--analysis of its various properties--the causes of its varied colours-- elucidation of the different disorders to which it is subject, and the best means of eradicating those diseases : interspersed with numerous interesting ancedotes / by Alexander Rowland, jun.

  • Rowland, Alexander.
Date:
1816
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Credit: An historical, philosophical and practical essay on the human hair, combining a full and copious description of its growth--analysis of its various properties--the causes of its varied colours-- elucidation of the different disorders to which it is subject, and the best means of eradicating those diseases : interspersed with numerous interesting ancedotes / by Alexander Rowland, jun. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    beauty captivated and gained admirers after she had passed her grand climacteric, Avas eminently conspicuous for the beauty of her Hair, which greatly enhanced those charms of which Nature had been so liberal. A young abbe composed some verses on this sub- ject, with which Ninon was highly gratified, and immediately admitted him into her favour and confidence. A monk undid the silken band, That tied her Tresses fair, And rais'd the bonnet from her head, And down her slender form they spread In ringlets rich and rare. JValter Scolt's Marmion^ Canto vlii. An eminent French writer, in the revolution of French fashions, observes, that it was above all in the arrangement of the Hair that the Greek ladies excelled with regard to simplicity.—Nothing is more agreeable and becoming than to wear the Hair floating over the shoulders. Tn the thirteenth century, the dress of the En- glish ladies was calculated entirely to conceal the Hair ; but in the preceding age, the Tresses were left to the natural flow, as those of Queen Matilda. In earth., in ocean, or in air, But it must deck Matilda's Hair. Rokebi/, Canto in.