Word: roniacol
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Responsible doctors continued to pooh-pooh Kelvin's or anyone else's hair restorer. Kelvin says he has not tried Roniacol pills on his own bald head...
...expectant tingling raced over thousands of shiny pates last year when Glasgow's Dr. John Kelvin, 53, reported that two patients had grown hair on their bald heads after taking tablets he had prescribed for cramps (TIME, Sept. 27, 1954)- Possible explanation for the growth: the drug (Roniacol) improved circulation of the scalp by its vasodilating (artery-widening) action. No one was more excited than a Manhattan businessman with a full head of hair: Lynn Robert Akers, 35, president of 21 Akers Hair and Scalp Clinics scattered throughout the U.S. He promptly flew to Glasgow, offered Dr. Kelvin...
...patients who had trouble with the circulation in their legs and feet, Glasgow's Dr. John Kelvin prescribed a drug (Roniacol) that is supposed to open the arteries far from the heart. After they had taken four tablets a day for two months, the patients-who had both been bald-reported that they had grown fine heads of hair...
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