Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1909 — Microbe of Baldness. [ARTICLE]

Microbe of Baldness.

Baldness la a malady intimately connected with a tkin disease which is very common, rbove all in youtn The skin contains glands chargee with secreting perspiration and gland, which give forth oily matter designed to lubricate the skin. Ihe exaggeration of the functi ns of the’e glands produces the malauy failed seborrhea. If you press between the nai’s a sufficiently diseased point of skin you will force from n!l the sebaceous pores several large ampullary cylinders with black heads, which one calls blackheads, together with innumerable vermiform filaments with yellow beads., Examine this fatty filament with the microscope, crush the oily matter between t ~o plates of glass, wash with ether, color and look at it. In the midst of the debris of epidermis, cf globules of fat, one will see millions of small bacilli extending in masses, in clouds and in fine dust. They are legion, and are prolific micro-bacilli, which are the cause or seborrhea. The transmission of the bacilli snd the resulting contagion are produced by a thousand hazards, perhaps more than one thinks, by barber shops where the brushes and combs pass from one head to another.