X-Rays as a Hair Restorer.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 6, 1 April 1907, Page 212

X-Rays as a Hair Restorer.

In the current issue of the Archives d' Electucite Medicate, Prof. A. Imbert and M. Marques confirm the observation recently noted, that exposure to Xrays results in the restoration of its normal hue to white hair. One of the authors, who has been engaged m X-ray work since 1896, and whose hair and beard were almost completely white, found that their colour returned and became even darker than the original tint ; similarly when an elderly patient was under treatment for lupus, part of his hair was exposed to the rays, and fell off ; it returned, howevei, almost completely black over the region affected, and has since retained its colour. These and other facts have convinced the authors of both the reality and the durability of the effects obtained, though they are unable to put forward a satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon. Those of us readers, therefore, who rejoice in the possession of silver locks had better steer clear of the X-rays.