Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — GROWTH OF THE HAIR. [ARTICLE]

GROWTH OF THE HAIR.

The influence of the diet upon the growth of the hair is the Bubjcot of a paper in which the writer says; “Several cases of shedding of hair after influenza have confirmed my opinion that diet lias much to do with the production and with the cure of symptomatic alopecia. Hair contains five per cent, of sulphur, aud its ash twenty per cent, of silicon and ten per cent, of iron and manganese. Solutions of beef, or rather part of it, starchy mixtures, and even milk, which constitute the diet of patients with influenza and other fevers, cannot supply these elements and atrophy at the roots and falling of hair result. “The color and strength of hair in young mammals is not attuined so long as milk is the sole food. As to drugs, irua has prompt influence. The foods which most abundantly contain the above named elements are the various aibumenotds and the oat, the ash of the fjruin yielding twenty-iwo per cent, of silicon, I have often found a uietury largely composed of oatmeal and brown bread greatly promote the growth of the huir, especially when the baldness was preceded by constipation and sluggish capillary circulation. Those races of men who consume most meat are the most hirsute.”