Show I XRAYS AS A DEPILATORY 1i r Neville Wood records In the Lon I don Lanceta < Inncul a case In which 0 consid erable overgrowth of cralle hair on a AVO mans face was removed b by I applying the rioentgcn riM There Wele applying sittings per week of ten minutes each the face and neck being protected with I P1H a lead foil mask tol except where1 the rays were intended to I act Th JlfmdeJ The distance be act I tween the l lll I twetn aiitlcathoda and the ski Jl was between six and seven inches The I current of the primary coil was main tamed at about Jive malJ about J1e amperes and the number of Interruptions varied between I 250 and 300 per second After alel fourteen exposures It was noticed that the 1 darker hairs had lost some of their I luster and In a weeks time there was Wt an obvious lessoning In their number The hairs became brittle and pale In I color with a trophic bulb There was a this slight period reddening After fortylive of the skin exposure during1 the whole o a very I thick downy exposlre and hairy growth had disappeared except nine hairs which remained at least a Ica I week after the total I removal of the others They were found however to be readily separated nl the bulbs being1 retained in poslllon by a more Hiiperll clal part of the lPIJ rootsheath I After ron sation of the treatment only fl a lC few thick hairs had returned and these weie removed by the oilknown pro cess of dstroying them by the electric needle Dr Wood Is of the opinion that the treatment Is neither disfigur ing or painful and thinks that about twenty vIll clear the ground for the use of Hi3 electric needle and that be tween thirty or forty exposures will eXPOSi probaoly l result In permanent alopecia Scientific American doleca |