BALDNESS AND BREATHING.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11244, 9 April 1902, Page 7

BALDNESS AND BREATHING.

A remarkable theory has recently been put forward by an American physician. His notion is that expired air contains organic matter which, if retained in the lungs and absorbed,- blights of the hair. He knows so zm»h of thw poison as to be aible to give it a name, "trichotooocon. He has made experiments with it on animals, and demonstrated Us toxicrty to his own satisfaction. Tihe fact that men are much more liable , to baldness than women finds a ready, if not altogether convincing explanation in *he "fact' T that men being abdominal! breathers, they do not empty their apical air-oells ; wthale, on the other hand, it is triumphantly pointed out that women, whose respiration is costal, develop little triohotoxicon, and hence have luxuriant hair. Consumptive patiente, in whose consolidated, cells the poisoned air ttumofc etegnate, are said to be markedJy free from baldness, whUst in aduCts of both eexes, as fixation of the ribs comes on with advancing the tendency to baldness increases in direct proportion. If this theory w accepted, it is clear that the best toeans of preventing baldness would be the adoption of a good style of breathing. It would be an interesting spectacle to see a number of gentlemen, whose head* ace beginning to show the depredations of trichotoxioon panting and glowing in,the effort to exjiel from their lungs the "subtle thief of hair.