Diseases of the human hair / from the French of M. Cazenave ; with a description of an apparatus for fumigating the scalp by T.H. Burgess.

  • Cazenave, P.-L. Alphée (Pierre-Louis Alphée), 1795-1877.
Date:
1851
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Diseases of the human hair / from the French of M. Cazenave ; with a description of an apparatus for fumigating the scalp by T.H. Burgess. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    order to obtain an immediate black tint, which may be done in some cases, a solution of one of the alkaline sulphates, (as the sulphates of potass, of soda, ammonia,) should be applied to the hair after the preparation of lead. When the hair is dry, oil or pomade should be ap- plied. The continued use of a lead comb has also been recommended as a means of pro- ducing a black dye : but it is of little use. And now let me repeat once more that all these remedies are more or less injurious to the structure of the hair. They require a certain amount of skill and dexterity in their application. If continued for a certain time they are sure to do harm both to the hair and the skin of the head, and they do not always produce the effect intended, which their ven- dors never fail to promise. How many dupes have not supplied themselves with specifics, at the emporiums of Uajeunissance, war- ranted to produce a beautiful black dye, whereas, to their mortification, they find that they have only transformed the original colour into a fiery red !