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WHAT CAN BE DONE
TO PREVENT BALDNESS ?
by William Brady M.D.
k LOPECIA, as physicians call it our friend the barber in his tonsorial
f\ —they always tack a fancy title operations.
/_» n a disease when they know The baldness of children is a rare con­
/ % little or nothing about it— dition in which there is a congenital
comes in many forms. There absence of hair follicles or an arrested
is alopecia adnata, which signifies that development of the hair follicles or roots.
some people are born bald. Then we We know nothing of the cause, and can
have alopecia senilis, implying that a give no advice in regard to escaping it.
favored few live long enough to achieve The baldness of old men, beginning
it. But the most painful, the most well along past middle age, is an expres­
cowardly type of baldness is alopecia sion of general lowering of nutrition and
prematura, which is thrust upon us bv tendencv to atrophv incident to advancing 1
"The Frequency of a Shampoo Is Insignificant—
It Must Be Done Often
Enough to Keep the Scalp Clean"
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