Word: scalps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Wiry, energetic men are apt to be shaggy. Dumpy, cunning men are apt to be bald. Food or drugs may restore hair to a glandular baldhead if the follicles are nourished before they die. Repeated scares or fits of anger may cause baldness by causing the capillaries of the scalp to constrict. Such hypersensitive constriction prevents blood from getting to the hair follicles and nourishing them. Rages and scares also affect the growth of hair by exhausting the adrenals. High fevers have a like effect...
...that upon his departure "two buckets full of knives" were collected from the cells. As to perversion. Warden Ragen declared by radio: "There's always such things in prison and always will be. . . What can we do?" Chicago's Mayor Kelly, out for Governor Horner's scalp, replied: "There should be more watchfulness on the Dart of the guards , The minds of the prisoners should be kept on a healthy plane...
...normal man and found that an electrical current resulted every time the man closed his jaw. The experiment was possible because a bone tumor had necessitated removal of three square inches from the top of the man's skull. Dr. Jacobson's needle, therefore, perforated only scarred scalp to plunge one and a half inches into the living brain. Because this experiment harmed the man not at all, Dr. Jacobson hopes to perform "further experimentae cruciae" to learn precisely what happens in the brain when a person makes a movement, and then possibly what to do in case...
...diary Francis Parkman tells of a Freshman "spree": "None got drunk, but all got merry. First the champagne disappeared, then the Msdeira, and the whisky would have, had it not been for the inexhaustible supply. They staged a war dance in the middle of the Common and uttered scalp yells...