On the management of the hair and scalp / by George Hopgood.

  • Hopgood, George.
Date:
1860
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Credit: On the management of the hair and scalp / by George Hopgood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hesitate to assert again, that hy proper treat- ment, and at very little cost of time or money, it might in the generality of cases be warded off to a late period of life. Whatever tends to produce relaxation and want of tone in the cu- taneous vessels, hastens the period of baldness. It is from these causes that the hair falls after fevers, consumption, and various kinds of eruptions of the head. In senile baldness, where it is the resirit of the obliteration of the organs which secrete the hair, no treatment it is obvious can avail; but in all other cases, whether arising from functional disturbance or from local disease, as soon as the constitutional cause which occasioned it is removed, the hair will soon re-appear; and where my Nutritive and Sedative Ceeam is applied, and attention is paid to the system of treatment I have here laid down, the new hair will be found often to excel in luxuriance and beauty the former growth. LOSS OF HAIR IN PATCHES. In the course of my experience, I have seen a great many instances of baldness in spots,