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- Title
THE WHITENING OF THE HAIR.
- Authors
Reiling, Jennifer
- Abstract
Presents an excerpt from an article which appeared 100 years ago on January 18, 1902 in this journal. Topic of the mechanism of the whitening of the hair, and how this relates to senility; Idea that the phenomenon is the most frequent early sign of approaching senility; View that exceptionally strong stimulation of pigmentophage cells by violent emotions causes the whitening of hair; Question of whether there are means of hindering hair from turning grey.
- Subjects
GRAY hair; HAIR manifestations of general diseases; MEDICAL publishing; SENILE dementia; HISTORY
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2002, Vol 287, Issue 3, p288
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.287.3.288