In conclusion, let me add that, if the hair becomes altered in
texture, or falls out gradually or suddenly, or changes in color, a
disease of the hair, either locally or generally, has set in, and the
hair, and perhaps the constitution, now needs, as in any other
disease, the constant care of the physician.
A general remedy for this or that hair disease that may develop will
not answer, as hair diseases, like other affections, have no one
remedy which will overcome wasting, thinning, or loss of color.
Patients reasoning upon this belief, frequently apply to me for a
remedy to restore their hair to its full vigor or give them back its
color. I always reply that I have no such remedy.
The general health, as well as the scalp and hairs, must be examined
carefully, particularly the latter, with the lens and microscope. All
changes must be watched, and the treatment varied from time to time
according to the indications.
No one remedy can, therefore, under any circumstances, suit, as the
remedy used to-day may be changed at the next or succeeding visit. No
remedy for the hair will be necessary if the foregoing advice be
followed which I have just narrated, and which is the result of some
seven years of labor and experience.
The proper consideration and putting into practice of these
suggestions will most certainly secure to the rising generation fewer
bald heads and more luxuriant hair than is possessed at the present
day.
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