The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 10, 1901, Page 8

THE OMMON SENSE, the most uncom- mon thing in the world, taken in doses to suit—this is the cure The er of bald-headed is increasing alarmingly. Baldness is not confined, as of yore, to old age men about the strain, want of exer- e halr very common bel among e lost can neve men that be re This is a mistake, unless from long neg- lect the hairbulb or root is dead. If it ls not dead, massage will supply the roots with nourishment by bringing a good blcod supply to the scalp. The sebaceous glands give to the halr its gloss and smcothness. r is a prant, consisting of a root anted in the scalp and an which projects from the A good t d supply, then, to feed ment to the roots—this s the se- et of good, healthy halr. Not long since salves and lotlons were looked upon as the sole sources of re- ewing hair. »s and quack doctors have made the eople lose faith in the possibility of re- owing hair. S s i e B R Y Tvory From Othgr Rnimals Just ag Geod 25 Rlcphants® Tusks. fi LEPHANTS are no longer the only ™ animals which can produce ivory, L= according to the official decision of the United States general appr: ers. Ivory dealers and those who work in the material have known this for a long time, but the makers of the tariff do not seem to have been so well posted. Testi- mony from ivory dealers was Introduced at the investigation to show that the tusks of the hippopotamus furnish just as good ivory as do any of the twenty-five different varieties of elephants. It was also shown that the boar, narwhal, right whale and alligator were producers of tvory. Even the Western hog gives up many an ivory tusk to the butchers in Chicago packing-houses. The ivory question arose a few weeks ego, when an importing firm tried bring in a consignment of umbrella han- @les made of hippopotamus teeth, says the New York Tribune. The importers ob- jected to paying duty at the rate of 35 per cent ad valorem, which is the fvory rate, and contended thatsthe hippopotamus teeth should be assessed at 20 per cent, as they were mentioned in the tariff. The Gecision was against the importers. This does not mean that there is no aif- ference between elephant ivory and hip- popotamus fvory. Ivory workers who un- derstand their vocation can distinguish a difference even between the various kinds of elephant ivory before it has been pol- sshed and worked over. When it is carved often experts can determine from just what animal the fvory originally came, but the ordinary purchaser can see no @ifference. Hippopotamus {vory answers every mer- to cantile purpose so far as It goes. That ic is not considered as valuable as elephant ivory is due to the fact that it can be used only for smaller articles. The hippo- potamus teeth received in this market weigh from one-half a pound to three or four pounds. The elephant tusks range in welght from 100 to 20 pounds. Narwhal tusks range in weight from five to twen- ty-five pounds. ‘When manufactured into small articles the hippopotamus ivory brings just as much as any other kind. As far as that goes, however, the tusks of the American hog bring more than does any kind of ivory if weight alone Is considered. If they were sold at the regular fvory rate of $4 a pound they would bring about 4 cents each. They are sold by thegplece and average 25 cents each. The pig teeth are hollow, but will take a very high pol- ish, and can be used in many ways. It is said that 20 per cent of the hogs killed produce valuable tusks. The long, thin, yellow tusk of the nar- whal does not oring nearly as much to- day as it did 150 years ago. This is due to the passing of superstitious ideas re- garding this jvory producer of the sea. A century ago people believed that the walrus was connected with the fabulous unicorn, and the horn or tusk was sup- posed to possess many magical virtues, For instance, it was regarded as an anti- dote for all poisons, and Kings kept a horn in their dining-rooms, believing it would warn them if their food had been poisoned. The tusks were worth thou- sands of dollars in these times, but the whalers and hunters of the north are glad to sell them to-day for $75. WA TO TOMB THE WMAIR They warrant to cure any and al dis- eases of the hair by the same medicine. Baldness, dandruff and excess of oll were warranted cured out of the same bottle. This is on the face of it an impossibility. Hair diseases are as many and varied as diseases of any other part of the body. Untll the root itself is destroyed the hair will try to reproduce’ itself. All of the diseases of the hair haye their origin in the sebaceous glands. ‘Elther the blood supply is not sufficlent to give enough nourishment to these glands, and they dry up, causing the lit- tle round flakes of dandruff, or perhaps these tiny glands secrets too much ofl, and in that case the flakes of dandruff are large and ofly. Both troubles loosen the halr at the roots. When the halr begins to fall out the seat of the trouble should first be sought and then corrected along natural, sensi- ble lines. We must ‘ald nature to correct the fault, and nature always responds plentifully to any encouragement we give her. We are in a manner, by the hothouse lives we live, thwarting nature. The primitive man is not troubled with baldness. It is a bane of civilization. The sun and air are his hair tonics. He rises and goes to bed with the sun. SUNDAY CALL. We keep late hours ‘and eat late sup- pers and keep our scalps from the alr and sun, My lady should take out the pins and combs from her hair when she has an hour in her boudolr and allow the sun to shine on her head, occasionally running her fingers through and lifting the hair up so that the air can get at the roots. The hair—the long-suffering hair—how little attention is given to it! Custom demands that we dress our bair in certain styles and not allow it to blow in the breeze as does the Indlan: then common sense should tell us that nature should be assisted by us to overcome the infringements cn the rights of the halr. We can not mistreat the body or the hair and expect good results. Why are men more troubled with hald- ness than women? First, men do not take such good care of their hair as women do. Women must of necessity brush out their hair in the morning gnd at night, else it becomes a mass of snarls. And again women do not have to cut their hair. Many people belleve that cut- ting is good for it, but the best heads of hair I have ever seen are those to which the scissors have never been applied. TWISTING THE The barber with his shears is an enemy to a healthy growth of hair. The hair Erows by a budding down process. When the hair is cut for a while it does grow faster, as nature puts forth all her effort to make up for what has been taken away. The strength of the papilla goes into the hair. ‘With men custom demands that the hair be worn short, but 1t should be left from three to five Inches long at least. Men are beginning to realize this at last. The closely shaven head of a few years back {s now seldom seen and the football head of hair that used to be laughed at 18 now looked upon with envy. “Have a squirt of tonic?” asks the bar- ber, and the well meaning hair is squirted with bay rum and alcohol, which s ruin- ous, A good tonic does the hair worlds of good, but first the scalp must be mas- vaged to get the bulb in a receptive condl- ton. The halr, when it persists in falling out, should be examined scientifically. Treat the hair with as much respect as you would any part of the body that troubles vou. Like everything else there I8 a right 1nd a Wrong way to massage. The first thing to do_is to loosen tke tightened scalp, for when the scalp grows to the head, that is a sign the blood ves sels and tiny capillaries are stilted and «an not bring the proper blood supply to the starving hair, so it dries up and drops out. For bald heads the herolc massage 1s necessary to bring the biocod to the sur- face, then a stimulating tonic should be applied with an easy rubbing motion and allowed to soak in. When the new hair appears a kneading, rotary motion is the thing and great care should be taken not to rub the scalp where new hair is growing as the new hair is sensitive and must be coaxed along—not treated harshly. Rubbing the scalp and massaging the scalp are two very different things. Rubbing is on the surface, but a scien- tific masseuse presses down on the scalp and firmly but gently moves the scalp it- self. The weight of the fingers and the force employed should be adjusted to tha patient’s needs.. Some people have very sensitlve scalps and a hard massage would make the scalp ache for days, ODTALP which 1n another's cass would be no mord than felt at the time. The two places on the scalp where tha Lalr falls out first are on the temples and crown of the head. The scalp should be grasped at the tem< ples with the thumb and fingers of one hand and a firm grasp taken with tha palm and fingers of the other on the oce cipitalis muscle at the back of the head, and then moved firmly toward each other, /Then the sides of the scalp should be grasped firmly and moved upward, thus directing the blood to the affected parts, A rotary movement can be given with the fingers of both hands along the hair line in front where the hair is thin. The masseuse should be intelligent. She should kriow why each movement is given and just what it 1s to accomplish. She should study the growing hair just as a horticulturist would his garden. All scalp magsage should be done from the finger joints, wrists or elbows, and never from the shoulders. Parting the hair and shaking each strand out separately is refreshing and is often as beneficial In its cleansing as a shampoo, as it removes every scale of dandruft and every particle of dust. The halr, especlally when thick and long, should be separated into strands, each strand to be brushed separately This will insure every hair being reached. Then the comb can be used without catching on any tiny snarls. The hair, If ncglected, sometimes be- comes afflicted with a parasite, a fungous growth that lives on the halr, taking its nourishment awav and crowding about its roots till the hair dries up and drops out. This parasite can be seen under a power- ful miseroscopa and its destructive work is evident in the lifeless hair it encircles. Wetting the head frequently, as so many men do, rots the hair. It does not give the natural ofls a chance and ft takes away from the luster of the hair. Nervous persons have less hair than phlegmatic persons. Brunettes have as a rule less than blondes, blondes having about 40 per cent more hair to the square nch than brunettes, and of a much finer texture, except the peroxide blondes. And this brings me to the subject of bleaching the hair. The effects of per- oxide upon the halr are to always make it fall out in the long run. Although for a time the hair may seem to flourish, after a while ths reaction sets in and the hais falls out. Is it worth while? Does the peroxide blonde galn enough of comfort and beauty to make up for the effort? Ot comfort she has none, for she must forever go around with a bottle of per- oxide in her head. The halr needs constant retouching, else it gets streaky in parts and dark at the roots. Even while she is trying to make an Impression she is wondering if the real truth of the matter does not show. Is it beaut: Does not the dark pig- ment of the skin meant to go With the dark halr laugh in derision at the per- oxide? Many women who In years past have dealt In the peroxide are now wear- ing switches and wigs. * Curling and waving the halr om hot frons is ruinous to its permanent well- being. It takes the vitality out of it so that it dries up and falls out in time. The constant wearing of hats is con- sidered a cause of baldness in men, but I find that more men who have sedentary positions in close offices suffer from falk- ing hair than peopls who have their hats on constantly and exercise a great deal ‘Many Pisgases Qre Tramsmitied By Small fnimals and Pets. HERE are many diseases to which Tsmall animals are lable and whici they are capable of transmitting. This subject, to which too little at- tention has been directed, has been re- garded by the Royal Society of Public Medicine in Belgium as worthy of its at- tention. | By reason of the close and often con- | tinuous contact between animals and | mankind, dogs, sometimes affected by | contaglous diseases, such as tuberculosis, hydrophobia, mange, eczema, etc., are fre- | quently the objects of such affection on the part of their master that he will take them in his arms, caress them In various ways, and allow them to jump upqn’his knees and lick not only his ha but his face, and even his lips. Sometimes, also, the dogs in a house live llke veritable boarders, side by side with the children, whose food they often share; they even eat off the pl used by the family. Generally speaking though more fre- Lquently in large cities than in the coun- try, dogs continually live beside their (masters, whom they scarcely ever leave, breathing the same atmosphere and con- tributing to so—-~ extent to render it ic. by diffusing into it miasma, and ps also specific agents of malaria, that are tran sible d. This being it 10t surprising that men should be at times wet with the sallva of a dog who has gone mad, or that a dog { should become tuberculous through living beside a consumptive master, and subse- in the opposite perha to man so, is | quently cause contagion sense. The eat as well as the dog may trans- | mit certain diseases to mankind. It is, in | fact, liable to tuberculosis, eczema and | other analogous affections that rage In mankind. Frem its mode of life, attached | as 1t 1s to the freside, it readily accepts the caresses of its owners, and lives be- side them; it likes eep in soft places, and if it carries upon it certain gxerms or parasites it leaves them behind it. Birds in the poultry yard, cage or dove- cote are also a purce from which the human race may catch the germs of | specific and even mortal d Al- | though: the question of transmission of aviarian diphtheria to children in the | form of human diphtheria has never been soived, and is by many persons considered | an extremely dubious one, it is none the | ases. | less established by numerous observations |on the part of the most conscientious | physiclans that when there is an ep'- THE HAR |\ AND SCALP demic of diphtheria in & poultry ysrd there is also a presence of angina with false membrane among the children. This is sufficient to warrant measures of pre- caution In that respect. Besides diphtherfa and pseudo-mem- branous angina birds have other dis- eases as to which there can be no doubt of the possibility of their transmission to mankind. It is sufficient to cite aviarian tuberculosis and psittacosis. The latter is a common disease with paroquets—a bird whose kisses certain persons receive with satisfaction. The rabbit and the hare are capable of communicating parasites. Althoygh the pathology of fish and mollusks is at pres- ent almost unknown it should be remem- bered that fish are capable of contracting tuberculosis. Having exhausted, or nearly exhausted, this long list of contagious diseases of small animals which they are capable of communicating to mankind, it remains to consider the general prophylactic meas- ures that should be taken In respect to them. Tuberculosis in the dog, cat and bird must be regarded as among those conta- glous maladies which, in the interest of the publie, call for slaughter by order of the authorities. Such a course is neces- sary because, according to the present researches of sclence, there is a comvlets {dentity between the determining agent of tuberculosis in man and in the dog and cat; because tuberculosis in fowls and the parrot tribe only differs from human tuberculosis in certain small points which are merely accessory—in other words, tu- berculosis of the dog, cat, fowl and parrot can be communicated—and, last, because the passage of tuberculosis from birds to man may be effected by the flesh of some of them which he uses for food, also by food that birds may contaminate with bacillfary products, in addition to Immedi- ate contact between persons and sick birds. Although medical authorities are not as yet in complete agreement on the ques- tion of the identity of human diphtheri( and the diphtheria of fowls, and althoug the labors of the laboratory have estab- lished a strong presumption in favor of thelr non-identity, it Is none the less cer- tain that medical observation connects epidemics of human diphtheria with out- breaks the diphtheria of birds. with contaglous coryza and chicken cholera (which frequently prevails at the same time in the poultry yard), and that in any case It is certain diphtheria among fowls gives children a pseudo-membranous af- fection. This diseass should, therefore, be the signal for the sacrifice of all sick fowls, the destruction of their bodles by some process recognized as efficacious, and the disinfecting of the poultry yard and everything in and about it. In regard to rables medical opinion s now fixed allke as to the preventive means to be adopted and as to the cura- tive means—namely, the muzzle in regard to the first case, anti-rabic treatment in regard to the second. Parasitic affections may be avolded by taking every possible means (lectures, instruction in the primary to put the public on guard thing that has been in con against ev: tact with animals, and to make it gen= srally known that water and food are, generally speaking, essential factors In the evolution of diseases, and that they are often the vehicles which serve ta propagate parasitic affections. Lastly, a service of Inspection of all fowls and game killed for public con- sumption should be confined to competent men authorized to prevent the sale of food of every animal proved to be affected with a disease that can be transmitted to mankind,