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- No one spoke as eloquently in favor of body hair as the Roman,
Juvenal, who was born just after the death of Jesus. He said,
"A hairy body and arms indicate a manly soul."
- Who speaks for baldness? Not the 17th century Englishman Thomas
Dekker who said, "How ugly is a bald pate! It looks like a face
wanting a nose."
- Chinese proverb, "Of 10 bald men nine are deceitful and the
tenth is stupid."
- Lycurgus, as far back as 850 B.C., recognized that too much
hair could be a drawback. He said, "A large head of hair makes
the ... ugly more terrible." He also said a little something about
how graceful the handsome look with a full head of hair.
- In ancient Greece hair was offered as a sacrifice to the Gods.
Often it was offered in thanks for deliverance or in the hope
of deliverance. Mariners would offer locks of their hair to the
sea gods before going on a long voyage.
- There is some controversy over whether hair can suddenly turn
white with shock. Sir Walter Scott was convinced it could happen
when he wrote, " Danger, long travail, want and woe. Soon
change the form that best we know. For deadly fear can time outgo.
And blanch at once the hair."
- In the biblical story, the cutting off of Samson's hair deprived
him of his strength. This may be an example of a man's head hair
"displacing" his facial and body hair as a symbol of
virility and power. Scalp hair loss is seen in much the same way,
as an indicator of age and loss of virility.
- The Japanese word "Gaijin" often used in Japan used
to point out foreigners means dirty or smelly haired. It is a
derogatory term.
- In the nineteenth century when considerable sea trading was
conducted between Europe and the Orient, Chinese and Japanese
authorities would warn local women in sea ports against fraternizing
with the European sailors using painted and printed depictions
of babies with fully grown beards and body hair. The Chinese and
Japanese have a traditional abhorrence of body and facial hair
and genetically have a relative lack of body hair themselves.
- Two psychiatrists, TA Szasz and AM Robertson, from the University
of Chicago many years ago claimed that baldness was due to laughter.
They suggested that the facial nerve which allows fluidity of
facial expression, has branches that activate the muscles of the
scalp. Broad smiles and hearty laughter cause this muscle to pull
on the scalp and tighten it which constricted the blood vessels
supplying the hair.
- The German poet Goethe warned against the power of hair, "Beware
of her fair hair for she excels. All women in the magic of her
locks. And when she winds them round a young man's neck. She will
not ever let him free again."
- In November 1969 the Daily Mail newspaper of London published
this statement, "Generally speaking a man prefers a blonde
for a mistress and a brunette for a wife. Brunettes have more
integrity."
- American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow referred to the preference
of dyeing brunette hair blonde when he wrote, "Often treachery
lies. Underneath the fairest hair."
- In a gibe against the fashion of wig wearing in ancient Rome
Marital wrote, "The golden hair that Galla wears. Is hers
- who would have thought it? She swears 'tis hers, and true she
swears. For I know where she bought it."
- In a dig against dressing the hair of ladies in the eighteenth
century a newspaper printed, "When he scents the mingled
steam. Which your plaster'd heads are rich in. Lard and meal,
and clouted cream. Can he love a walking kitchen?"
- The late Cardinal John O'Connor after losing his hair to radiation
therapy noted, "Our Lord never said that hair had anything to
do with getting to heaven."
- The Gospel of Matthew assures us that "The very hairs of our
head are all numbered." Unfortunately, it doesn’t offer to count
body hair.
- Hippocrates was perhaps the first to realize a link between
androgens and pattern baldness when he wrote in Aphorism VI 28,
"Eunuchs are not subject to gout nor do they become bald."
- Kev's quote, "if the hair is dead it must be shed".
In other words, dead telogen hairs must fall out sooner or later
and there is nothing you can do to stop the shedding.
- Not a direct reference to hair but still relevant to hair disease.
"The art of medicine is to amuse the patient while nature
cures the disease" (Valaire 1600-1700s).
- Julius Caesar was bald, which is ironic because the name Caesar,
from the Latin "caesaries," means "abundant hair."
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