[Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by George M. Gould]@TWC D-Link bookAnomalies and Curiosities of Medicine CHAPTER VI 73/293
He was stout and exhibited no signs of internal disease, except at the apex of the right lung. Anomalous Color Changes of the Hair .-- The hair is liable to undergo certain changes of color connected with some modification of that part of the bulb secreting its coloring-matter.
Alibert, quoted by Rayer, gives us a report of the case of a young lady who, after a severe fever which followed a very difficult labor, lost a fine head of hair during a discharge of viscid fluid, which inundated the head in every part.
He tells us, further, that the hair grew again of a deep black color after the recovery of the patient.
The same writer tells of the case of James B--, born with brown hair, who, having lost it all during the course of a sickness, had it replaced with a crop of the brightest red.
White and gray hair has also, under peculiar circumstances, been replaced by hair of the same color as the individual had in youth.
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