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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    ages and countries, passages illustrative of tlie high estimation in Avhich the arrangement of the Human Hair has ever been viewed.—Heathen and Christian Poets, illustrious Philosophers, learned Divines, Biblical critics, Dramatic writers, and moral Essayists, have all jomed to demonstrate this point. I would wish to impress upon the mind of my fair readers, that in the most magnificent empires that have existed, the costume of dress was viewed as incomplete without a tasteful arrangement of the Hair. In all ages, in every quarter of the globe, this has been the universal maxim. It is testified by the customs of those female Islanders who were discovered by that immortal circumnavigator. Captain Cook, more especially among the beau- tiful and luxuriant females of Otaheite.—And shall the lovely females of Britain's favoured isle, so pre-eminent for their beauty and their moral and intellectual powers, neglect the cultivation and due arrangement of Nature's sweet attire for the head ? See attic ease in sculpture's graceful air Half loose her robe, and half unbound her Hair. Langhorn. Ye British fair, let me give you a word of advice. Ladies, said Imlac, in Bassclas,* to mock the * See Dr. Johnson's Rasselas.