Theoretical and practical exposition of the diseases of the hair / by F. Deville.

  • Deville, F. (Francis)
Date:
1849
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    might long since have fearlessly proclaimed their merits through the press, and, by thus facilitating their sale, as quickly as possible reaped the fruit of the protracted labor they have cost us. Yet we have preferred, ere seeking to gain our just re- compense of the other inhabitants of the United States, to await the circulation and adequate appre- ciation of our preparations among those of Balti- more. And we can now flatter ourself with hav- ing, by incontestible facts, vanquished most of the in- creduhty inspired by the mendacious promises of the quacks, by whom such numbers are victimized. Our preparations combine, in the highest degree, all the properties requisite to the allaying and cure of all those affections of the capillary system which are susceptible of treatment: for we do not hesitate to declare, that the virtue of our remedies reaches neither the impossible nor the miraculous; inasmuch as the profoundest science has limits that it can never pass. The loss of the hair proceeds from different causes, which naturally produce various effects; and these our preparations can either prevent, weaken or radically destroy, according to the promptitude and perseverance with which they have been applied at the beginning of the disease. All affections of the capillary system, as will be further shown in this work, have their seat in the bulb, or, to make use of the vulgar term, the root of the hair. The ingredients composing our prepara- tions are accordingly calculated to reanimate the