Show THE BALD HEAD there are few men in civilized life who are la in possession of a bald head that would not pay handsomely if they were at I 1 ie to do so to t get rid of it meaning of course the baldness bald nesa not the head itself perhaps it to unnecessary to use uie the qualifying term civilized life for the reason that eo 80 far as aa we have bays learned there are no bald headed barbarians barb arlana except such aboh ai have made themselves so 0 o by artificial methods regarding such a thing as aa an object of admiration or something of that mat kind in respect again our cultured culture raw race differs from them the cause of baldness are numerous namer oui and while some iome of those these are well known the progress aa of science in IB the matter of prevention has baa been very tory deliberate indeed if in fact it was not quite stationary stati dr mapother of england has baa been devoting some time and at to the subject of theford the food we sat eat and its relation in some oases cases to the low lose of hair from the head bead he estimates that hair contains con taino fully five dve per cent of sulphur and if gray twenty per cent of silica and ten len of iron and manganese elements which he proceeds to inform the world are deteriorated and finally annihilated by the daily use of beef and milk on the other hand a stimulant for the hair cavities and thereby of capillary growth is such food as contains albumin olds and starches these containing twenty two per cent of silica he points to the fact if fact it be that those who live on such substances have the most moat luxuriant looks locka as aa a rule and herein is a matter worthy of serious attention we are not informed as to whether in the doctors opi opinion nien a steady regimen consisting of oats oat coarse broad bread potatoes rice and so go on would likely restore the capillary covering where it had entirely fallen out or whether the diet would merely arrest such a tendency tandel licy and preserve what was left firmly la in its place but bat in any event it to is a good thing to know it should be remembered in this connection that an investigation of the kind spoken of is in the direct line of the medical study and research of the present day the object being as much to get at the origin of disease of all kinds and thus be able to forestall it as to 0 analyze the disease after it has taken hold and apply a cure of course every disease is merely the result of a violation of or departure from some rule of nature which cannot be tampered with in the slightest manner without resentment being more or less ion speedy and alto gether ether sure the only trouble is I 1 in n S finding out whore where the irritation occurs and tracing mgt its J effects up to the time and point 7 int of consequent outbreak this to Is what dr mapother believes he be has succeeded in accomplishing to some ome extent at least in the matter of baldness and we can afford to listen with a credulous ear until the contrary appears at the same flame time and not withstand ing the he almost universal uni venal desire to prevent or remove baldness it should be borne in mind that a bald head is very many removes from a reproach to the owner of it oftener than other wise it la Is caused by intense mental application or some disorder engendered thereby occasionally but not often it is the result of accident and old age has but little to do with it we wear unnatural hats and wear them too much which to is an aggravation it if not a cause and as previously suggested the hairless caput is in an almost unfailing token of civilization if not of intellectual predominance it is in observable obier vable that but few of the more pronounced criminals have bald heads and it is a somewhat curious circumstance that a case of bald baldness noes and consumption in one auld and the same person Js is very rare indeed |