A CLOAK FOR BALDNESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 45, 15 June 1914, Page 4

A CLOAK FOR BALDNESS.

A method of sewing hairs to the human scalp in cases of partial or total baldness has been successfully used in several instances by Dr. Szekely at the hospital of Saint Stephane at Budapest. The number of hairs “planted” in the head of a patient has been as many as 50,000. One hundred hairs are drawn through punctures in the scalp to every square centimetre, and as both ends are left free, the number is thus 200 or over 1000 to each square inch. Very fine gold wires are used, one five-hundredth of an inch in diameter, and fine long hairs from a woman’s head are attached at the middle to these. The gold loop or knot acts as an “anchor,” and after sterilisation is introduced into the subcutaneous tissue, where it is slightly twisted and holds the hair permanently in position. It is stated that 600 hairs can be thus introduced into the scalp withiri'Three-quarters of an hour. The hair is stated to appear perfectly natural, and a capsule of tissue appears to form ,around each gold wire knot. The inflammation resulting from the treatment entirely disappears in from ton to twelve days.