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Causes Of Gray Hairs

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
September
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Oray halrs are honorable, no doubt, but their advent is cot usually halled with any exuberant joy by men, and certalnly not by women, and it is curioua to note in going through life at what varylng ages people commence to show the passage of years by the change in the color of the hair. And yet the whitenlng of the hair does not always portend the approach of age, for the hair of some individuals laboring under certain passions has been known to become gray in a single night. Many reasons have been suggested for gray hair; some that the cause is a contraction of the skin about the roots of it, and from this cause suppose that Polar animáis become white, the cold operating as the contracting power; but thU theory is untenable, or we might all turn gray if we happened to be exposed to particularly hard frosts. As a matter of fact, there are fewer gray people in Russia than in sunny Italy er Arabia. The more likely reaBon Is that the vital power is lessened in the extreme ramifications of those almost imperceptible vessels destined to supply the hair with coloring fluid. The vessels which secrete the fluid cease to act, or else the absorbent veseels take It away faster than it Is furnished. Thig certainly appears to be feaalble, for grief, debility, frijht, fever and aje al! have the effect of lessening the power of the extreme vessels. Against this theory it may be urged that if the body be again invigorated, the vessels ought, according to our reasoning, to agaln secrete the coloring fluid, but to this it may be replied that the vessels which secrete this fluid are so very minute that upon their ceaslng their functions they become obliterated and nothing can ever restore them.

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