. Proper care of the hair and scalp. ed management more thanmedication. The local treatment, of course, must notbe forgotten, and in the case of the splitting of thehair this tendency must be arrested by cutting off allthe hairs so affected above the point of splitting. Nountoward symptoms will follow, but there will set ina new mode of growth and the new hair will be normalin appearance and growth. In those cases in which the hairs break off, thesame manoeuvre will succeed and as a result a newgrowth of good and sound hair will set in. It is also a very good idea to gently comb thehair and em
. Proper care of the hair and scalp. ed management more thanmedication. The local treatment, of course, must notbe forgotten, and in the case of the splitting of thehair this tendency must be arrested by cutting off allthe hairs so affected above the point of splitting. Nountoward symptoms will follow, but there will set ina new mode of growth and the new hair will be normalin appearance and growth. In those cases in which the hairs break off, thesame manoeuvre will succeed and as a result a newgrowth of good and sound hair will set in. It is also a very good idea to gently comb thehair and employ a mild shampoo and a gentle spares the hairs and the breaking off or splittingis pretty nearly obviated. It is also a good idea oc-casionally to use a bland oil sparingly and very care-fully so as not to have the hair drenched with it. Avery useful help in the management of the hair is notto expose it to any great heat such as sunshine, radia-tors, or hot air heaters. An equable temperature is Page One Hundred Four. Fig. of the Hair. PROPER CARE OF THE HAIR AND SCALP the best and most advantageous. But, when we lookat the condition more narrowly the best treatment is,beyond a doubt, that which is advised by a competentspecialist in skin and hair diseases. It is very praise-worthy for a layman to make an effort to attend to thismatter of treatment but it is usually followed by fail-ure, so far as satisfactory results are concerned. Page One Hundred Five CHAPTER XVIII. KNOTTING OF THE HAIR. Another annoying condition of the hair is trichor-rhexis nodosa, or knotting of the hair as it is com-monly called. It occurs pretty frequently and is seenmost often as affecting the hair of the head in womenand of the moustache in men. It appears to the nakedeye like a little lump on the hair and it cannot bedrawn out. It is most often observed in adult lifeand is a source of annoyance to those affected byit. It is, in reality, a peculiar and interesting con-dit
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