TO CURE BALDNESS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 October 1913, Page 4

TO CURE BALDNESS.

Can baldness bo cured by cold atmospheric treatment 'i This is a question that hag been occupying the attention of scientists. Sir Ernest Shackleton, the explorer, laid stress upon the fact that man'v of the Tien in his expedition before their in the Antarctic regions were remarkable for the thinness of their locks. They had barely been a few weeks in the frozen South, however, than their hair began to grow, and when they returned from their expedition all had hair remarkable for its thickness and luxuriance. It has been remarked also that nearly, all the men who work the greater part of the day in cold-storage roo-ns have good heads of hair. The laws of Nature would seem to emphasise the fact that cold is favourable to the growth of hair. Take the case of the animals. In no countries of the work! is their fur so thick and luxuriant, aa in the frozen Arctic regions. By a special dispensation of Providence 1 the animal dwellers there are given an extra thick warm covering to protect them froln the cold. In the brief spell of warm weather they cast their coata for a lighter one more suitable'for the season. Why should not the same laws prevail in the case of human beings P.