HAIRCUTTING AND BALDNESS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLI, Issue 2, 14 July 1914, Page 8

HAIRCUTTING AND BALDNESS.

Several matters of interest to t'ne mere layman engaged the attention of the British Medical Conference at Brighton (Eng.) some time ago. Dr. Barendt, a skin specialist, for examplee, suggested too much hair-cutting as a cause of baldness. "Why is it there are so many bald men and so few bald women ?" he asked. "I believe it is because men will not let their hair grow to a proper length. The average man wears his hair about an inch long, whereas it should be at least 13 or 14 inches." Dr Barendt afterwards explained that he considered Nature was affronted by frequent cutting of the hair. "If it is not allowed to grow to the length I have mentioned it becomes dry and loses its strength, much in the same way that | the muscles of the body become tlabby i and weak if they are not exercised." J Dr. David Walsb, a Harley Street skin specialist, told the meeting that he considered the abnormal loss of liair on the head, as well as many skin diseases, was largely associated with defective circulation of the blood. Loss of hair might often be taken as a sign of heart trouble. In support of this he found that out of 36 bald persons lie had 1 examined 24 were suffering from valvular disease of the heart. Dr. Eddowes, f however, mentioned the case of an ex- 1 tremely bald man who was one of the I most powerful gymnasts he knew. j