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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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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    an accompanying symptom of several of the eruptions of the head. It may he seen, fo^ example, during the progress of pityriasis, im- petigo, ringworm, and favus. In some instances the scalp is covered with furfuraceous thin scales, which are rapidly re- produced, and seated on an erythematous base. In others, the destruction of the hair is produced by disease of their bulbs, and the skin externally does not seem to be the seat of any lesion whatever. In senile baldness, for example, there is no visible nor actual alteration in the external cutaneous surface, the disease being produced in this instance, according to Bichat, by the gradual diminution of the cavity of the bulbs, and the obliteration of the follicles. In the latter cases no remedy or method of treatment will be of any avail. Whatever tends to produce an established relaxation and want of tone in the cutane- ous vessels and in the hair follicles and bulbs, becomes a cause of baldness, and hence it is a frequent sequel upon fevers of various kinds. In these and similar cases, in which the organs B 2