Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1912 — DECLARE AGAINST SUN BATH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DECLARE AGAINST SUN BATH

Medical Authorities Say It Is Not Only Injurious to Hair, but to the Whole System, _ The fact that savages almost always possess fine crops of hair, taken with

the fact that they do not wear hats, has led some people to believe that going bareheaded might be a preventive of baldness. But Dr. Gottheil points out

that the action of the sun’s rays upon the head is injurious not only to the hair but to the whole system, overindulgence in sun baths causing irritability and nervous cardiac and osculating disturbances and lesions of the skin that are often serious. But it is pointed out that the tight hatband constricts circulation in the arteries and veins of the head, and, as the Medical Record says, it is a moot point whether this be not as harmful to the hair as are the actinic rays of the sun.