A Popular Treatise on the Hair: Its Growth, Care, Diseases and Their Treatment by Leonard, C. Henri - 1879

Detroit: Post and Tribune Job Printing Company, 1879. 316pgs+adv. Very Good condition hardcover, black cloth spine, blue boards gilt lettering and design to front board and spine. A 1" closed tear to top margin of title page. Edges and corners rubbed. Clean and sound, with vintage druggist's stamp on front free endpaper: " Beebe, Druggist and Grocer, Boschee's German Syrup, Green's August Flower, Ovid, Mich." Illustrated by one hundred and sixteen engravings. Occasional recipes and formulae for treatment. Chapers: the chemistry, anatomy and physiology of the hair and follicles, anatomy and physiology of the hair-root, anatomy and physiology of the shaft external to the follicle, the hair-shaft continued, the hair-shaft concluded, the color of the hair, the hair in singular places, hygienic treatment of the hair, polytrichia (excessive hair growth), canities (turning gray of the hair), trichonosis decolor(discoloring of the hair), alopecia vulgaris circumscripta, senilis (baldness), coloring or dyeing the hair, pityriasis (dandruff), seborrhoea capilliti, asteatodes and allosteatodes, eczema (milk crust), sycosis menti acne and rupia syphilitica, vegetable parasitic diseases, tinea tonsurans (ringworm of the scalp), tinea favosa (honeycomb ringworm), tinea declavans (patchy baldness), tinea sycosis (barber's itch), general chapter upon animal parasites, the dermatozoa (anial parasites), different modes of dressing the hair, the hair of the ancient Assyrians, Egyptians and Incas, the beard. Book #2616.. No Additional or Previous Printings. Hard Cover, Decorated Boards. Very Good. 8.5x5.25 Inches.