Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . s ofsulphur, mixed with sulphate of calcium (milk of sulphur havingevidently been used in this case); also lead corresponding to of lead. The simple truth in the matter is, as Beigel remarks, that of thetwo principal chemicals used for staining the hair, viz., nitrate ofsilver and lead, the former colors the skin as well as the hair, whilethe latter is poisonous, and liable to cause most painful colics, andev
Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . s ofsulphur, mixed with sulphate of calcium (milk of sulphur havingevidently been used in this case); also lead corresponding to of lead. The simple truth in the matter is, as Beigel remarks, that of thetwo principal chemicals used for staining the hair, viz., nitrate ofsilver and lead, the former colors the skin as well as the hair, whilethe latter is poisonous, and liable to cause most painful colics, andeven contractions of the limbs. A perfectly harmless dye for the hair has not yet been discovered. ABNORMAL GROWTH OF HATR. This is not a very common disease. The accompanying cutsillustrate one or two phases that this disease may assume. Theyare chiefly interesting as curiosities. It is perhaps hardly fair to call this a disease, but rather a defor-mity. There is, as we all know, a great difference in the quantityof hair with different individuals. 640 DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES, (For remarks on scald head and other diseases of the hair, seeSkin, Diseases of.).
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