The use of electricity in the removal of superfluous hair : and the treatment of various facial blemishes / by George Henry Fox.

Date:
1886
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Credit: The use of electricity in the removal of superfluous hair : and the treatment of various facial blemishes / by George Henry Fox. 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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    of devoting to the painful operation of removing the hair. Neither her mother nor any of four sisters manifested any tendency to hirsuties, and the patient herself did not, except on the face. During the first six months of treatment I re- moved over twenty-seven hundred hairs. During the following year about twenty-three hundred were re- moved, making five thousand hairs in all. The patient is still under occasional treatment for the growth of hair upon the upper lip, from which would grow a strong moustache. The removal of this is very tedious, since with a view to the preven- tion of even minute scars, she only allows a dozen or more isolated hairs to grow at one time upon the lip. The left side of her face, exclusive of the upper lip, is, and has been for the past eight mont!%, per- fectly free from the objectionable growth. Upon the right side the hairs were removed with less care at first, and some fine ones have been lately removed. There have been many minute cicatrices left by the needle, but they are of little account, and the result of the prolonged treatment has been most satisfac- tory both to myself and to the patient. Case XII.—Mrs. , a large, handsome lady, aged twenty-five, and apparently in perfect health; married four years and no children. Her skin was unusually fine and delicate, and with the exception of fifty-seven hairs growing upon her neck and a single small mole upon right side of chin, there was