New views on baldness : being a treatise on the hair and skin / by H.P. Truefitt.

  • Truefitt, H. P.
Date:
1863
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Credit: New views on baldness : being a treatise on the hair and skin / by H.P. Truefitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    areolar tissues the several vessels of the scalp, at the same time that they are fixed in their position, are yet enabled to undergo the movements to ■which they are exposed by the muscles, or by alterations in the circulating powers. In the muscles, this areolar tissue both connects the fibres altogether, and preserves them from undue separation during contraction; and briefly, may be said to exist throughout the body in greater or less profusion, according to the extent to which motion of neighbouring parts one upon the other is required. Thus, upon the scalp it is found freely investing the surface of the bone, between it and the tendons of the occipito-frontalis muscle; and, as in other parts, is present immediately under the skin, in company with the granular fat, and the ramifications of the vessels and nerves. When a small fragment is examined under the microscope, an inextricable interlacement of bauds and fibres is readily seen. The hands are inelastic, and present numerous streaks. The fibres are long and branching filaments, -which are very prone to curl when not put on the stretch. These respective white and yellow elements leave innu- merable interstices between them as they twine among each other; and it is to the presence of