A practical treatise on healthy skin; with rules for the medical and domestic treatment of cutaneous diseases / By Erasmus Wilson.

  • Wilson, Erasmus, Sir, 1809-1884.
Date:
1845
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on healthy skin; with rules for the medical and domestic treatment of cutaneous diseases / By Erasmus Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Economy of the short hairs of the body; cause of goose-skin, 79 ; disturbance of growth of short hairs ; hail’s imprisoned within the skin, 80; remedy for this state of the hairs, 81. Economy of the downy hairs, 81; their imprisonment within the skin; instances of unusual growth of the downy hairs, 82; direction of the hair-tubes and hairs upon the surface of the body, 83; formation of the eyebrows, 84; formation of the whiskers, mustachios, beard, 86; chemical com¬ position of hairs, 89 ; use of the hair, 90; special purposes fulfilled by the hairs; the hair an instrument of touch, 91; early development of the hair, 92; relation between the growth of the hair and the activity of internal organs, 93 ; transmission of fluids through hairs B probable; improbability of the assumed bleaching of the hair in the course of a night, 94; reputed instances of this sudden change, 95; gradual change in the colour of the hair, dating from a given period, by no means uncommon, 98 ; fabulous stories with regard to growth of the hair, 99. CHAPTER VI. ON THE INFLUENCE OF DIET ON THE HEALTH OF THE SKIN. The skin an important agent for good or for evil; sensations of tem¬ perature agreeable or disagreeable, 102; important rule of health; food a source of warmth, 103 ; classification of nutritive substances ; composition of milk, 104; chemical constitution of alimentary mat¬ ters, 105 ; digestion, 106 ; nutrition, deformation; heat resulting from the chemical operations of life, 107; principle of diet applicable to invalids; diet of summer and winter; diet of the Polar regions, 108 ; vital action similar to chemical combustion, 109 ; qualities of food ; peculiarities in individuals ; quantity of food, 110. CHAPTER VII. ON THE INFLUENCE OF CLOTHING ON THE HEALTH OF THE SKIN. Mode in which clothing is preservative of heat, 112; illustrations from the eider duck, seabirds, polar animals, 113; adaptation of clothing to summer and winter, 114; materials of warm clothing; bad con-