Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — BALDNESS DUE TO PET DOGS [ARTICLE]

BALDNESS DUE TO PET DOGS

Doctor Holds Canines Responsible for Epidemic Which Has Appeared Among in London. From Londoq ? comes a warning to women who have pet dogs. Since the start of the war many English Women have found that they were losing their hair. . A West End hairdresser, observing that he had had more cases of falling hair in the last year than ever before, regarded worry and grief as the cause, but a physician advances another theory: “This explanation is partly correct,” says this physician. “The depressing effect on vitality of fear, anxiety and sorrow reacts with serious consequences on the hair. ,But in my opinion the epidemic, if there is an epidemic; is to be traced mainly to'infection from dogs. “Every hair expert knows that in nine out of ten cases the premature loss of hair is due to dandruff. That condition often results from the presence of microbes whose great source is the dog. Ordinary cleansing with soap or shampoo preparations is'of poetically no use, but simple antiseptics, such as boric ointment, usually bring about a speedy cure. As a preventive measure dispense with the dog.”