Show BALD HEADS ARE IMMUNE consumption and smooth cran urn incompatible bays physician there are advantages accruing even from imald heads it is pointed out by a writer in a medical journal that bald headed men never suffer from con and that a tendency to bald ness Is an assurance that the dreaded scourge will pass over him whose thatch grows thin at first glance it would seem ab surd to argue that a mans hair is indicative of his immunity from disease but the writer who advances this novel theory declares that in the five years during which he seriously added a record of his patients hair or lack of it his case cards have failed to show a single instance of bald being entered upon the card of a consumptive he had under treatment more than cases and he makes the further statement that in a census of moie than tuberculosis cases he failed to discover a single sufferer who was bald he makes no effort to explain his theory upon medical grounds but sim ply offers the results of his observe lion for the benefit of the profession and has invited his brother physician to write him of any case of a bald headed consumptive coming under their observation new york herald |