The hair : its growth, care, diseases, and treatment / by C. Henri Leonard.

Date:
1880
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Credit: The hair : its growth, care, diseases, and treatment / by C. Henri Leonard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Peripatetic, had a gray and curling beard, Eteocles, the Stoic, had a long beard and wrinkled brow. Demosthenes, the orator, had a long flowing beard, much as is worn at the present day. Hippocrates bad a short beard, though he was bald-headed. Figure 116. Homer also had quite a full beard which resembled that of Demosthenes. uEschines, and the great Roman orator, Cicero, were both smooth-faced. Aristotle was also equally devoid of hirsute covering on his face, while Socrates and Plato were both possessors of quite lengthy and heavy beards, though the Greeks had a common saying that it took more than a beard to make a philosopher. No doubt there is much sense in the custom of that old Grecian, Zoilus, for, as Aelian tells us, he was accustomed to shave his head that his beard might grow. It is a notorious fact that men of luxuriant beard-growth are deficient in their cranial covering, and vice versa. Too, when the beard begins to grow thrifty, then the comate covering of the head begins to decline. The mustache, it is said, was specially legislated against by the Spartans, the decree issuing from the Ephori commanding all the people to shave their mustachios, and so obey the laws. Coming from this body, which was even more powerful than the king himself, the edict must have been obeyed. This, so far as my knowledge goes, is the only time that this part of the hirsute covering has been specially legislated against. Kossuth is accredited with the introduction of mustache- wearing, the rest of the face being shaven, to the American public; this was on his first visit. It was so well liked that the custom speedily came to be quite universal, remaining with us to the present time. Uses. It is a principle, well recognized in Nature, that