HAIR STIMULANT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue V, 30 July 1898, Page 158

HAIR STIMULANT.

Is there any cure for baldness, it may be. asked? Not if it be of long standing. No medical man in this world could make hair grow on a billiard ball, and there are no medical men in heaven. Stay a monjent, I hough, that last remark of mine may be liable to misconstruction. Ido not mean that no doctors go to heaven, for I believe that probably five per cent, do, only there will be no need for them to exercise their profession in the happy land. But when one’s hair begins to get thin, if one is comparatively young, there is usually a remedy. This remedy, however, is partly constitutional and partly local. Until good health is re-established and bad habits, sueh as too much tea, coffee, or spirit drinking, given up, there is no chance for any case. There is generally a low condition of the powers of life, with more or less of heat in the scalp. Aperients do good, especially the salines, taken with plenty of water in the morning, with at night now and then a blue pill and colocynth. Tonic bitters will help to strengthen the appetite,the eold morning tub will brace the nerves and tone the whole system, and massage is invaluable. The hair should be washed with the mildest soap, or better still, yolk of egg, and as carefully dried.