Baldness - Its Causes, Its Treatment and Its Prevention

Dedication

Many people might be helped or comforted by timely advice and treatment from their family physician before being obliged to consult the hair-specialist, particularly those who lack the time, the opportunity or the money to take special treatment.

This work has been undertaken in the hope that it may arouse the general practitioner to take more interest in and have more knowledge of a subject which is of first importance to more persons than any but the specialist realizes.

In this hope this work is dedicated to my colleagues in the profession.

Richard W. Muller, M.D., A.M.A., Ac.Med.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Note

Introduction

Chapter I. The Scalp and the Hair
Uses of Hair

A. The Anatomy of the Hair and its Appendages

Types of hair

Hair Centers, or Whorls

Anatomical Anomalies of the Hair Follicle

Length of Life and Growth of Hair

Malformation of the Hair

Chapter II. Loss of Hair
The Various Causes of Falling Out of the Hair

The Early Symptoms of Abnormal Loss of Hair and Baldness

Chapter III. Baldness (Alopecia)

Chapter IV. Diseases Causing Baldness
Seborrhea

Eczema Seborrhoicum of Unna

Pruritus in Seborrhea and other Diseases

Abscesses of the Scalp

Acne

Acne Keloid, or Sycosis Vulgaris

Acne Necrotica
Carbuncle

Folliculitis

Furuncle

Impetigo

Tubercular Diseases of the Scalp

Ringworm (Herpes Tonsurans, Trichophyton)

Favus

Chapter V. Loss of Hair

Chapter VI. Prematurely Gray Hair—Canites
Conclusion

Chapter VII. Hygiene
Hair Pointers

General Rules

Points for Local Troubles

Chapter VIII. General Therapy
Regrowth of the Hair

Electrotherapy

Roentgen Rays

Radium and Finsen

The Quartz Lamp Treatment

Chapter IX. Examination of the Scalp1
Etiology or Causes of Baldness

Chapter X. Technique of the Examination of Hair and Scales
Information Gained by the Examination of Hair and Scales

Chapter XI. The Microscopic Examination of the Marrow-Canal for Diagnostic Purposes
Chapter XII. Treatment for Hair Loss in General

Chapter XIII. Therapy and Formulary for the Use of Practitioners Only

Glossary