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The Human Hair; Its Structure, Growth, Diseases, and Their Treatment Hermann Beigel No preview available - 2018 |
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abnormal Aïnos alopecia altered animal appearance beard become body brown bulb cause cells central tube CHAPTER chignons child colour consisting corium cortical substance covered with hair cuticle dark disease drachm drops epidermis Erasmus Wilson excessive growth external fact fibrous fluid following woodcut formation fungi fungus green hair gregarines grey hair grow Hair-dyes hair-sac hair's hairy Hallier head human hair Hypertrichosis indigo INFLATION AND CRACKING instance Julius Cæsar knots Kölliker lady lanugo latter length likewise locks long hair lotion Maphoon medullary microscope natural Neroli normal observed ounce outer papilla peculiar perspiratory plica polonica Pomatum present Professor Lindemann Quinia recognised remarkable root root-sheath says scalp Sclerotium sebaceous glands seen sensitive layer shaft shaved sheath Shwe-Maon silky skin soda solution spots square inch structure structureless membrane Suetonius sulphuric acid surface tain teeth tion transparent turpentine whole Yesso
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Page 2 - And he went up from thence unto Beth-el : and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head ; go up, thou bald head.
Page 2 - And she made him sleep upon her knees ; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head ; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.
Page 128 - ... soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab That plats the manes of horses in the night, And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which once untangled much misfortune bodes...
Page 31 - To obtain an estimate of the length of tube of the perspiratory system of the whole surface of the body, I think that 2,800 might be taken as a fair average of the number of pores in the square inch, and 700, consequently, of the number of inches in length.
Page 31 - I think that 2800 might be taken as a fair average of the number of pores in the square inch, and 700, consequently, of the number of inches in length. Now, the number of square inches of surface in a man of ordinary height and bulk is 2500 ; the number of pores, therefore, 7,000,000, and the number of inches of perspiratory tube 1,750,000, that is, 145,833 feet, or 48,600 yards, or nearly twenty-eight miles.
Page 2 - There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
Page 7 - And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 30 - Now, each of these pores being the aperture of a little tube of about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that in a square inch of skin on the palm of the hand there exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73£ feet.
Page 76 - Except the extreme upper tip, no part of the ear was visible : all the rest was filled and veiled by a large mass of silky hair, growing apparently out of every part of the external organ, and hanging in a dependent lock to a length of eight or ten inches.
Page 7 - My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold, His locks are bushy, and black as a raven.