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Title: The physiology and hygiene of the house in which we live
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hatfield, Marcus P. (Marcus Patten), 1849-1909
Subjects: Physiology Hygiene
Publisher: New York : Chautauqua Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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Mosaics and Tapestjues. 17 scalp, when a physicians advice should be taken instead of analmanacs tonic. Patent hair dyes are especially to beshunned; for with very few exceptions they owe their valueto lead salts, and these, sooner or later, produce poisoningand paralysis. No one in his senses was ever long deceivedby dyed hair, although the attempt is as old as the time of thePharaohs; but the Egyptians were wiser than we, for theyshaved the obnoxious hair off from their heads and wore, in-stead, wigs dyed to order. Artificial hirsute abominationsdate back to Margaret of Navarre. Margaret of Navarre,says history, having through sickness lost her blonde locks,cut off similar ones from her plebeian subjects and wore theminstead of her own. History repeats itself, and every townhas its local Margarets, who borrow their coiffures or bleachtheir own locks by means of peroxide of hydrogen, and there-by permanently injure their hair. Gray hairs are a crownof glory, says an excellent authori

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