Show HEALTH ADVICE By Dr Morris Fishbein Editor Journal of the American Medi ca cal Association It is la recorded that the ancient Egyptian women wound their hair hairon on sticks formed a mud pack around the hair and sat In the sun After some Inconvenience j they had curly hair 1 Nowadays the woman who vho wants permanently curly hair goes Into a beauty shop where she is hitched up to an electrical apparatus from which she ahe h e emerges eventually with what f. f fa called a permanent wave The Th average permanent wa wave e takes about three hours and l lasts last toJ from three to six months In addition to the electric apparatus apparatus ap ap- a number of ot chemical substances are used Inasmuch h has as people may be sensitive to any of these substances there arc occasional reactions of ot the skin and of the tissues generally I which may give a good deal of ot distress to the person concerned Other side effects of permanent permanent perma perma- nent waving may Involve burnIng burning burn burn- Ing sometimes the development of severe brittleness of the hair so that It cracks and breaks break off sometimes discoloration In cases when there are eruptions eruptions after the permanent wave it Is necessary to d determine e t e r m I n e whether or not the person is sensitive sensitive sen zen to some of the ingredients ingredient It must be remembered also that after a permanent wave substances sub stances are sometimes used for tor shampoo or or for perfuming e which may be involved in the sensitivity There is no doubt that excessive excessive excessive sive heat will injure the hair halt This Is shown particularly In gray grayhair grayhair grayhair hair or white hair which may turn yellowish after the permanent permanent perma perma- nent wave One Norwegian writer found green discoloration of the hair after permanent perm waving All of the people had used lotions containing mercury What happened happened hap hap- in these cases was a combination combination com con of the mercurial solution with alkali then an application of the heat and a chemical re reaction reaction reo re- action which resulted in a green color t Nowadays most beauty shops have permanent waving machines which are automatically controlled t tso so that high temperatures or I Id d dangerous a n g e r 0 us temperatures are avoided They have electric timing timing tim tim- t ing devices which shut off the current automatically when the heating has gone on long enough It is well however to be sure lIure that the apparatus is up to date dat and safe before trying it t In addition to the kind of work i that is done by the experienced t operator in a beauty shop all sorts of methods have been sold I for permanent waving at home r. r using chemical solutions or apparatus apparatus ap ap- apparatus api i which has not been tested test tested ed on a large s scale aIe It is better betterto r to be sure than to be sorry be because because because be- be I cause the wrong method used once t may give a result that looks look j t at bad or injures the hair and zev lev ev- ev j r eral months may be required for tot J recovery I |