Word: dandruff
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People grow bald because follicles from which hair grows die or become stunted. A dead follicle can never be revived. A stunted one may be. Rarely does a scalp get so fouled with germs or fungus that follicles die and hair falls out. Despite hair tonic advertisements, dandruff, per se, does not cause baldness...
Newshawks at the White House one day last week watched the dandruff-flecked coat collar of Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins as its owner hurried up a corridor to keep an appointment with President Roosevelt. Later the bowlegs of Hugh Samuel Johnson carried that old-time cavalryman over the Presidential threshold. And when General Johnson reappeared, it was to announce without much pleasure that he had just been made Federal Works Progress Administrator for New York City. Boarding a plane with his faithful secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson, the General therewith flew off to New York...
...Morris Moore and Roy Louis Kile, workers at Barnard Free Skin & Cancer Hospital in St. Louis, last week confidently announced that they had proved that a germ one six-thousandth of an inch long causes dandruff...
...germ, Pityrosporum ovalis, had long been suspected in dandruff. But no bacteriologist before Drs. Moore & Kile had been able to cultivate it for more than two or three generations. Trouble was that in the beginning most bacteriologists thought that Pityrosporum ovalis could be cultured like diphtheria or scarlet fever bacteria. Actually the germ of dandruff is a fungus like yeast and needs special soil for growth. Drs. Moore & Kile raised it on wort agar...
Since there is a dandruff germ, the disease must be catching, Drs. Moore & Kile imply. Someone may invent a vaccine against it. Meantime if any of the 165 manufacturers of hair tonics supposed to eradicate dandruff can prove that their stuff actually reaches and kills Pityrosporum ovalis, they should do a big business with the 25,000,000 U. S. men who suffer with dandruff...