Item #56044 Theoretical and Practical Exposition of the Diseases of the Hair; Contents: Structure of the Hair; Influence of Disease, Moral Emotions, Work, Pleasures, Love, Grossness, on the Hair; Does the Hair of Women Turn White Sooner than that of Men?; Means of Obviating the Falling of the Hair - of Causing It to Grow Again; How to Prevent the Hair from Turning White; Pernicious Effects of Certain Applications; Impropriety of Pulling Out the Hair; Infallible Method of Giving the Hair Any Artificial Color that May Be Desired; Forty-three Receipts for Perfumery, &c. Francis Deville.
Theoretical and Practical Exposition of the Diseases of the Hair; Contents: Structure of the Hair; Influence of Disease, Moral Emotions, Work, Pleasures, Love, Grossness, on the Hair; Does the Hair of Women Turn White Sooner than that of Men?; Means of Obviating the Falling of the Hair - of Causing It to Grow Again; How to Prevent the Hair from Turning White; Pernicious Effects of Certain Applications; Impropriety of Pulling Out the Hair; Infallible Method of Giving the Hair Any Artificial Color that May Be Desired; Forty-three Receipts for Perfumery, &c.

Theoretical and Practical Exposition of the Diseases of the Hair; Contents: Structure of the Hair; Influence of Disease, Moral Emotions, Work, Pleasures, Love, Grossness, on the Hair; Does the Hair of Women Turn White Sooner than that of Men?; Means of Obviating the Falling of the Hair - of Causing It to Grow Again; How to Prevent the Hair from Turning White; Pernicious Effects of Certain Applications; Impropriety of Pulling Out the Hair; Infallible Method of Giving the Hair Any Artificial Color that May Be Desired; Forty-three Receipts for Perfumery, &c.

Baltimore, MD: Printed by Jos. Robinson, 1849. First edition. 8vo. 70 pp. Lithographed frontispiece plate with hand-coloring. OCLC locates four copies (Library of Congress, Johns Hopkins, Duke Medical Library, National Library of Medicine). Original printed brown wrappers (some soiling, corner of rear wrapper chipped, old repair at joint of front wrapper). Old institutional stamp on front wrapper mostly eradicated, else very good. (2524). Item #56044

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