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To  the  Friends  of Humanity.
  Prom the first introduction of Grandjean's Remedy for the Hair,
¡t has been received with that approbation which can only be accorded
to an article that has  been well tried  and not  found  wanting.
The confidence  reposed in this remedy, after a lapseof time sufficient
to test its merits, is a conclusive evidence of its high  appreciation,
and of the great notoriety it has obtained.
  This composition has been of great service to those who have used
¡t, according to the instructions  with  care and perseverance, and all
may expcrience the benefits of its surprising effects.
  So great has been its success, that base imitations have been made—
but such imitations, hy persons who would speculate upon the igno-
rance or  credulity of the  public, by having studied  but imperfectly,
if at all, the nature of the composition, or who have  not identified
themselves with the true study of the skin  of the head.        *^
  But there is an  end of all things, and the reception given to GráTO-
jean's composition, is a sure guarantee of  its beneficial effects.   It is
almost impossible to supply the demand, thatis constantly received for
it, notwithstanding the base calumnies circulated against it, by its
opponents.   But what can that avail, when Grandjean's composition
has wrought its way to public  favour solely by its own  merits, and .
cannot fail to become, at no distant day, universal ? How can we prove
the truth of its  wonderful effects ?   It can only be by the  most palpa-
ble and incontestiblefacts, and by the tcstimony of individuáis whose
honourable character  andjudgment are known.   It is to them I ad-
dress myself with confidence, and from them I claim what they justly
consider my due.
  I trust I may exercise the right of respectfully soliciting from those
who have used my Medicinal Composition for the Hair, to giye me in
writing its  effects, noting the  state of the hair before, during, and
after the treatment, the results good or bad, and in short, all the  par-
ticulars relative to this subject
  The object I  have in view in becoming  possessed of these authen-
tic documents, is tomake tlie truth kvident as the light of day,
AND PÜT ERROR TO ITS HIGHEST  TEST.
  I intend to unite a collossal mass 6f proofs, for the purpose of pub-
lication, and to keep a register of them at my office, that  all may be
ad vised of the true merits of my composition, and that those who doubt
may doubt no longer.           ,
  It is requested, that those who intend to oblige me by sending certi-
ficates, would be kind enough to forward them by prívate conveyance,
fearful that they will come in such  quamities, that I cannot receive
them in any other way.
                              AUGUSTE GRANDJEAN.
                                  No. 1, Barclay-strctt, New-York. 
 
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          THE  GREAT  MYSTERY  FOUND  OUT.

                          HAIR.

                GRANDJEAN'S COMPOSITION.

        An important discovery  for the treatment of the hair; a
     preservative  against baldness;  and an infallible cure in all
     affections of the skin on the head, as



        Multitudes of Chemists,  Apothecaries,  and  Perfumera
     have  successively attempted to treat of that part of the hu-
     man body, without having sufficiently studied  the  subject.
     By spreading ostentatious reports  of an  exaggerated fame,
     they have fatigued  the public with the words—Wonder!
     Prodigy !

                  EVIDENCE!   EVIDENCE ! !

        To prevent  the destruction  of  so fine an ornament, and
     to renew that gift of nature, requires many years' experience
     with the identical part;  for what kind of  Composition could
     that be, invented by persons not  familiar with the study of
     the skin on the head ?
        The true essence of the hair, as  it is called by some cele-
     brated doctors, who have  used and recommended it as a
     specific, might  for its effects be compared to the regulative
     activity which takes place in each plant.
        The  numerous  experiments  Mr.  Grandjean has made,
     leave no  doubt, in  his mind, relative to the course followed
\    by the sap, and of the causes which stop its circulation  in
»    the intercellular spaces,  which all communicate together, so
}    as to  form the capillary tube  so  infinitely divided.  The
¡    sap does not circuíate in all hair with the  same facility.   In
>    most hair, of which  the vessels are  but  little  developed, it
     opérales slowly, because the tube itself being continually
'    filled with it, annihilates the perspiration;  then the ascending
     effect cannot take place but by the application of Grandjean's
     Composition, which in a few days only, will penétrate through
    the hair to the roots.
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  The ascending power varies then not only accbrding to the
quality of the tube, but also to the way of using this Compo-
sition, apply the paste in the evening before going to bed and
the liquid in the morning; it is easy then to conceive that
during sleep the surface of the skin on the head produces an
 .vaporation, often  very abundant; the sap, which in some
degree is in relation with that phenomenon, ascends rapidly.
The result is very easy to state.   The friction, that has been
made before sleep, refreshes and repairs the skin on the head,
then thegrowth continúes as naturally as ever; while by em-
ploying the paste in the morning only, the result can only be
uncertain, since the pores of the  skin are closer and  conse-
quently in  a disposition quite  unfavourable for  receiving
from this Composition all its salutary effects.

                B ALDNESS.

  It must and does receive the pre-eminence, and  surpasses
all that has yet been employed for the treatment of the hair.
One bottle of it ought to be counted among the necessary
articles which  should be purchased  by  all parents, for it
 preserves the roots, prevents the falling ofF, and strengthens
by its rich  and generous  stimulants, the weakest hair; gives
to all sorts of hair admirable sottness, lustre, and fineness;
and keeps  it in a great measure from  becoming

                      GR AT.

  It is an  extraordinary specific to erase from  the skin on
the head,  that powdery sediment which  so many persons
eomplain of.  It may be daily applied on the head of the
aged, as well as the youngest child's.
  The  considerable sale thereof, the repute and extensión it
daily receives, is a certain guarantee, and ought to banish all
the fears that one creates in his own mind concerning its
efficacy.   Each will receive with the bottle a treatise on
the proper treatment of the hair.
   Mr. Grandjean's Composition, which  has hitherto been
sold without any odour, will henceforth partake of the excel-
lent perfumes, Rose, Jasmine, Bergamot,  Vanilla, Ambrosia,
 áfC. SfC.
   Principal Office,  No.  1,  Barclay-St.,  two doors from
Broadway. 
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   COMPOSITION BE; GRANDJEAN.

   Découverte  importante  pour le traitement des cheveux,
prevenir leur chute, et guérir l'affection du cuir chevelu.
   Jusqu'á ce jour une  quantité innombrable de Chimistes,
de Pharmaciens et de Parfumeurs ont voulu tour á tour traiter
cette parure  du genre  humain sans études assez profondes
sur ce sujet.  lis ont, en répandant les bruits fastueux d'une
renommée, d'une exagération et d'un enthousiasme extrava-
gant, fatigué le monde entier des mots—Prodige, Merveille.

       V EVIDENCE !  L' EVIDENCE ! !

   Pour s'opposer á la  destruction de cet ornement si beau,
et pour renouveler cette belle parure, il  a  fallu pendant de
longues années, et chaqué jour, palper bien  des tetes. (Que
pourrait étre une Composition  faite par des personnes non
identifiées  avec l'étude du cuir  chevelu?)  La véritable
essence du  cheveu,  comme  l'appellent  grand nombre de
célebres Docteurs, qui en font un usage  personnel et la re-
commandent comme spécifique, doit étre comparée, par ses
effets,  á, l'activité végétative  qui  se produit  au  printempa
dans le sein de chaqué plante.   Les expériences nombreuses
que  Mr. Grandjean a tentées ne  laissent plus aucun doute
sur la  route suivie par  la séve et  sur les causes qui inter-
ceptent sa circulation dans les tubes capillaires  divises  á
l'infini. La circulation de la séve ne  se  fait pas dans tous
les cheveux de  la méme maniere.   Pour les cheveux gras,
dont les vaisseaux sont peu développés, elle n'opére que len-
tement, parce que le  tube lui-méme, continuellement enduit,
rend la transpiraron nulle, alors l'ascension ne peut reprendre
son cours que par l'imbibition de la Composition Grandjean,
qui en moins de quelques jours traverse les parois du cheveu
et de  la  racine.  La  forcé d'ascension varié  alors,  non
seulement suivant la qualité du tube, mais encoré suivant la
maniere d'employer cette Composition,  ce qui   doit étre
la páte réguliérement tous les  soirs,  avant le coucher, et
le liquide la matin.   L'on concevra facilement que pendant
le sommeil  la surface du  cuir chevelu est le siége d'une
évaporation   souvent considerable,   la  séve qui  jusqu'á 
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un  certain  point  est  en  rapport avec ce  phénotóéne
monte avec rapidité;  ce  résultat est extrémement simple
it  constater.    La   friction  qui a été  faite  avant   le
coucher remet et prepare le cuir chevelu, alors le travail de
la pousse reprend son cours naturel, au lieu que par Femploi
de la  páte  le  matin,  on ne  pourra  obtenir que des
résultats incertains, la peau étant plus tendue, les pores plus
fermés et par conséquent dans une disposition toute contraire
íl recevoirde cette composition tous ses bien/aitssahitaires.
   Elle figure  en premiére ligne et surpasse en ee moment
toutce qui a été employé  pour la  chevelure.  Un de ses
flacons doit étre compté parmi les choses indispensables dont
doit se muñir toutchef de famille; elle  affermit les racines,
arréte la chure, fortifie par ses stimulans riches et généreux
els cheveux les plus faibles, rend á toutes les chevelures ce
moelleux,  ce  lustre,  et  cette  douceur  admirable, prévient
beaucoup les cheveux de blanchir.
   Spécifique extraordinaire  pour faire disparaitre du cuir
chevelu ce sediment poudreux dont tant de  personnes ont
a se plaindre.  L'emploi peut en étre quotidiennement fait sur
la tete des  vieillards comme sur celle  des enfants les plus
jeiyies.
   Le grand débit qui s'en fait, la vogue et le  développement
que prend chaqué jour cet article est un sur garant et doit suffire
pour confondre toutes les craintes que l'on pourrait suggérer
sur l'efficacité de cette Composition.
   La Composition de Grandjean qui jusqu'á ce jour s'eat
vendue  sans odeur  agréable,  aujourd'hui  posséde  les par-
fums  les plus  odoriférants:  la Rose,  le Jasmin, la  Ber.
gamotte,   Vanille^  Ambroisic,  ¿¡pe.  Spc. Sfc.   Chaqué
flacón est accompagné d'un traite sur la chevelure.
   No. 1,  Rué Barclay, deux portes de Broadway. 
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COMPOSICIÓN  DE  GB.AIMDJEAIM.


     DESCUBRIMIENTO IMPORTANTE PARA CON-
                SERVAR EL CABELLO.


  Un sin numero de Quimicos, de Farmacéuticos y de Pet-
fumistas han querido a la vez dar métodos de cuidar de este
adorno del linaje humano, pero sin estudios bastante profun-
dos sombre la materia, y por adquirir renombre, han causado
al mundo entero con las exajeradas Prodigio !  Maravilli! !


           EVIDENCIA!  EVIDENCIA!!


" Para contener la destrucción de esto bello adorno y reno-
varle, ha sido menester de muchos años y palpar diariamente
muchas cabezas.  Qué podría  ser  una composición hecha
por individuos que no están identificados con el estudio de la
piel  de la cabeza ?  La verdadera  essencia del pelo, como
la llaman muchos doctores célebres que la usan en su persona
y la recomiendan como un específico, debe compararse por
sus  efectos  á la actividad vejetativa que se produce por la
primavera en el seno de cada planta.   Los numerosos espe-
rimentos que Sig. Grandjean ha hecho, no dejan duda alguna
sobre el camino que sigue la savia, y sobre las causas que in-
terceptan su circulación por los espacios de las capas que
comunicándose unos con otros forman el tubo capilar, dividi-
do hasta lo infinito.  La circulación de la savia no se efectúa
de un  modo mismo en lodos los cabellos.  En los grasónos,
cuyos vasos no están  bien disarrollados su  operación es
lenta, porque el mismo tubo que continuamente está pegajoso,
hace nula la transpiración, en cuyo caso no puede Ja ascen-
ción volver á tomar su curso, sino por  la imbibición de la
composición de Grandjean, la cual en mui pocos dias  atraviesa
los intersticios de los cabellos y sus raices.   La fuerza de la
ascención varía entonces, no solamente  según la calidad de
los tubos, sino según la manera de emplear esta composición,
que  debe ser todas las  noches al irse á acostar.  Así se con-
cibe fácilmente que durante el sueño, se forma á meduno en 
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 la piel de la cabeza una evoporacion considerable, y la savia
 que en  cierto modo tiene relación con este fenómeno, sube
 con rapidez este resultado es mui fácil de demonstrar.  La
 fricción  que se  ha hecho antes de acostarse prepara la piel
 pilosa, entonces  el trabajo del retoño vuelve á tomar su curso
 natural,  en lugar de que si se  emplea la composición por la
 mañana, no se conseguirán sino resultados inciertos, estando
 mas tirante la piel, mas cerrados los poros, y por  consecuen-
 cia en disposición contraria para poder recibir de esta  com-
 posición  todos sus  saludables efectos.
   Esta composición es la que se conoce por primera en su
 linea, y  escede á todas  cuantas se han empleado hasta aqui
 para el pelo.  Un frasco de estos debe ser contado entre las
 cosas indispensables de  uso común, porque afirma las raices
 del pelo contiene sucaida, y da á todas  las cabelleras aquella
 suavidad, aquel lustre y aquella elasticidad y frescura admira-
 bles, que ahuyentan las canas.
   Especifico estraordinario  que hace desaparecer la caspa,
 de  que tantos se quejan, y se puede emplear todos los dias
 tanto por las personas avanzadas en edad como por los mas
jóvenes.
   La  mucha salida que tiene y la boga en que va entrando
todos los dias, es una segura garantía que debe bastar  para
desechar todo temor sobre la eficacia de esta composición.
   La Composición de Grandjean que hasta ahora se ha  ven-
 dido sin  ningún olor  agradable, hoi  lleva y a los perfumes
mas esquisitos de  Rosa, Jazmín, Bergamota,  Vanilla,  Am-
brosia, SfC. áfc.
   No. 1, Calle de Barclay, á dos puertas de Broadway. 
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   GRANDJEAN'S  COMPOSITION;

The only imporiant Discovery for the Treatment of the

                  IX A IR;

     A PRESERVATIVE AGAIÑST BALDNESS ;

And an infallible Cure in all Affections of the Skin on the Head,
                  as Dandriff, $c.
   In offering to the public a treatise upon this part of the
human body, I have not attempted to lay down any par-
ticular system, ñor do I claim to myself any further merit,
than that of having terminated an undertaking which
has been the subject of my researches for  a period of fif-
teen years, and defínitively accomplished for the good of
humanity.  This invaluable composition, in the course
of a  few months, must, from the benefit it confers, become
of universal use, and an indispensable appendage to the
dressing table.
   Incredulity  and superstition originate in the want of
knowledge ; and  in this case, we can only be convinced
of the wonderful qualities of this composition by trying it
ourselves.  The surprise and satisfaction derived  from
its success will soon bring it into universal estimation.
   In studying the different diseases of the hair, I have
invariably endeavoured to discover their causes, and from
the effects produced, to arrive  at their proper remedies.
Besides the  causes common to all, there are many that
are peculiar to particular  constitutions;  and, as the hair
is affected by the changes of climate, I have observed the
influence of  these causes in different countries.
  It  is  astonishing that a subject of  such great interest
and importance should have been so long neglected.  It
is  surprising that centuries should have rolled on in the
course of time, and no person as yet seriously devoted his
              1* 
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attention to a study of such great benefit to the human
race.  It may at least be  considered as interesting as
many of those  which have  occupied the attention of
mankind.  Does not the hair give beauty to the coun-
tenance ?   Is it not the  highest ornament with which
nature  has  gifted her children?   Must we not admit
that man to be deserving of the highest praise and en-
eouragement, who has devoted many years of his Ufe to
the study of its nature and growth, and  has  at length
discovered the means of preserving it, to an advanced
period of life, in all its beauty and freshness 1   To enu-
mérate the various minerals of the earth—to distinguish
the minutest vegetables into different classes—and even
to discover the phenomenon of absorption, circulation,
and evaporation of the sap in trees, has called forth the
exertions of the  learned.  Man, by  perseverance and
labour,  has excavated into the bosom of the earth, ex-
tracted its ores, and wrought  them  to his use; the sea
has been compelled to yield to him its hidden treasure3;
he ascends the loftiest mountains, and visits the remotest
regions  in pursuit of knowledge ; he weighs the air, and
decomposes  the  water.   The whole earth, enriched  by
his care, gives proof of his wisdom  and powor.  He un-
dertakes and risks every thing to assuage hb insatiable
desire of observation.  In fact, all things are possible
to man. And  yet, he has  not sought to account for the
various  phenomena which take place within  him, and
more  especially the wonderful operation  or the growth
of the hair, and the means of preventing its loss.
   In what manner is the hair formed ?  It emanates by
the law of life, and is independent of all human ageney.
The hair, as composing part of the embryo, is developed,
and grows  by the influence of vitality.   The  principies
of our  being are prepared  by nature, the first great and
essential cause, and from  her  every individual has re-
ceived this splendid gift.   It reniains for man to preserve
it by proper care and treatment; his power is  limited to
this.  The  hair  ceases to  grow when the roots decay;
the most senseless quack  could alone  assert the con-
trary. 
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            THE  COMPOSITION.

   The composition, which I offer to the  public is pro-
 duced simply by means of pulverization, from animáis
 not indigenous to this country, from a rich suoetance,
 and from roots.  By a proportional admixture of these.
 I have composed an extract of the greatest use in in-
 vigorating the hair,  and  incomparable in all cases of
 dandriff, which it invariably cures in a period of eight or
 ten days.

               THE DANDRIFF.

   The superiority of this ointment will be known by its
 results, and by the quick and evident manner in which
 it destroys the dandrifT.  In three or four days the epi-
 dermis assumes  its accustomed elasticity.   It cleanses
 the hair of those innumerable pellicles, seen only by the
 aid of the microscope. This is the first stage of the disease.-
 The roots, having become free, immediately expand, and
 the hair  quickly assumes its natural  appearance.  To
 avoid every  possibility of a return of the disease, it will
 be necessary to continué  the use of the ointment a short
 time after the entire disappearance of the dandriff.   No-
 thing can be more detrimental to the hair than to allow
 these dry  and dead particles to remain on the head: they
 cover the  roots, and prevent the young hair from attain-
 ing its  proper strength;  the vivifying moisture, instead
 of filtering through the capillary tubes, is dried up, and,
 from the  want of this necessary nourishment, the roots
 decay.
   This disease, on accqunt of the numerous causes and
 the  effects attending it, cannot  be neglected without
 bringing in its train a great thinness of hair, or perhaps
 baldness  itself, as the  hair is not only indispensable to
 the harmony of  the physiognomy, but likewise a  pre-
 servative against  numerous diseases, such as inflamma-
 tion of the eyes, pains in  the head, which origínate from
 inflammation in the inward and membranous covering
of the nose ;  from this it communicates to the connecting
nbres of the  brain, and most frequently terminates in 
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dryness.  It is also known, that the head, havmg lost ita
natural protector against the cold, and from the exposure
to which the brain  is liable,  is one of the undenrable
causes of several diseases wliich ultimately prove chronic.
   The great  number of heads which  carne under my
observation, and the long time I have devoted to this sub-
ject, warrant my assertion, that this leprous disease effects
itsravages on the phrenological divisions 11,16,  17, 21;
that the loss of the hair usually commences ini3,14,15;
principally in men, number 10, but baldness on this last
división of the cranium is occasioned by causes too nu-
merous to mention in the present treatise.
   Without entering into a detailof all the various periods
of its decay, I must be contení with afnrming that this
disease is principally confined to the  above-mentioned
numbers—that it but rarely affects the divisions 19, 8,
7: 5} 4; 3—and that these latter retain the roots to a later
period—and lastly that number 2 is never firee from hair.


A CASE OF  PLICA—AT NEW-YORK.

   UjT Having interested myself for many years in every
 thing bearing any relation to the pathology of the pileuse
 system,  and receiving every day a great number of visits,
 I have  been naturally led to  make many new observa-
 tions upon the hair.  No one, perhaps, will read without
 interest the report of a case very common in this country.
 For example:—I am often consulted about children who
 have  had the roots of their hair more  or less destroyed
 by the scab, which has been left too long upon  the head.
 —Consequently the result is, that the matter which re-
 mains below these scabs ulcerates the roots, weakens the
 vitality of the membranes, and very often prevenís the
 reproduction of the hair.  I have occupied myself much
 in the  treatment of this malady, which  nearly always
 indicates its first approach by little places about the size
 of a two shilling piece, and is vulgarly called ring-worm.
 Upon some  patients I have  remarked these dry places
  without inflammation, and they are found thus  more 
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commonly upon the heads of adults, and are very tena-
cious and difncult to cure, often varying its situation, and
that during several years, until the head becomes bald,
in a very singular manner,  also, leaving not the shadow
of a single root perceptible.
  I have seen upon many patients the hair grown again,
but all white, or in such  a  manner as to give it the ap-
pearance of being irregularly spotted.  The means which
I employed for the cure of this affection are nearly the
same which have always succeeded in reproducing the
hair on heads entirely bald,  viz: a simple treatment,
and the regular  use of Grandjean's Composition.  I re-
animated the faint vitality of the epidermis and the roots,
and rekindled, thus  to speak, the latter and the  corres-
ponding tubes. I revive, by this means, the secret facul-
ty of these orgáns, and consequently produce the repul-
lalation.  I think I ought to recommend to mothers ne-
ver to neglect this kind of little scabby diseases, for often
they are  or become very dangerous, and  last several
years—the feeble hairs are dried up, and are sometimes
of different colors upon the same head.
  The most extraordinary case of  the kind which I
have seen in  the United States is a case of Plica, and
which at least I should desígnate similar to those so often
seen in eonnection with the real Polish  Plica.  I was
consulted  last September by a young man about 25 years
oíd, of a delicate and nervous  constitution.   I was not
long in perceiving, by liberal symptoms,  that the Plica
existed upon the skull of the patient—at least the follow-
ing appearances made me suppose  so:—paleness  and
lividness of complexión, profuse perspiration on the skin
of  the hair, sore throat,  ágglutination of the growing
hair, as if they had been soaked in water, stiffened with
gum.  The least touch in verted the roots, occasioning
cruel pains.  I began by the application of pressed mallow
root water, repeating it three times a day, severe diet,
bathing twice a week, the body free—for three weeks the
same treatment was  persevered in, but no improvement
appeared—only great weakness.  I should have been
able from  my first visit to destroy, in an instant, all these 
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troublesome omens;  but the fearful reactions were too
much to fear; and I knew too well  that if the hair waa
cut off while in that condition, the principie of the disease
would fix upon the epidermis, showing itself oíten upon
some interior organ, and  cause death.  The fourth week
of the treatment  some locks of hair  fell off—the patient
experienced less pain, and was more at ease.   Treatment
—six leeches behind each ear; every evening mustard
poultices on the feet; like treatment for  the head as be-
fore ; a  mercurial  composition applied to the hair to de-
stroy a numerous insect population, which for some days
had appeared, from whence I know not—it made me fear
a new irritation.   A week passed—the hair fell no more,
but on the contrary, appeared to me to grow with rapidi-
ty, and  seemed to  be stronger, and  it thickened.   The
disease offered a  frightful aspect; the nails of the hands
and  feet had a black appearance; small abscesses were
formed upon the joints of the bones; a feeling of heavi-
ness and melancholy, which uneasily showed itself by
the twitching of  the  hands and feet, the pricking under
the  nails, the nostrils,  and the  temples, the  ears; a
strange  irritation of the hair behind the ears; an exuda-
tion  of fetid matter.   Treatment—mixture of milk and
soft  bread—continuation of different emollient  applica-
tions—softening  it during 15  days—bathing the head
every morning in a liquid composed of spirits of turpén-
tine, of  oleum rorism, &c, rubbing all the infected roots
with Grandjean's  composition (the  paste) mixed  with
souffre d'antimoine dore, washing more and  more every
day; and lastly, covering the head with a large poultice
a week  after using the composition.
  The intrication of the hair declared itself a month after
the Trichomatic scurf was formed—then all the nervoua
symptoms disappeared; some days after I was able to
make the application of the Trichome, which succeeded
admirably — every morning  poultices  of  Grandjean's
Composition cleansing the new hair which wasnow form-
ing, to-day about one inch long—color  palé—but very
thick, and no doubt  that after some days it will be long
enough for the interior of the tubes to be penetrated by the 
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nutritious substance, and the hair will retake by degrees
its primitive colour.
  La composition de Grandjean est employé avec suc-
cés pour guérir radicalement toutes les maladies du cuir
chevelu, pour les tetes chauves, elle est aussi un puissant
résoluti et  décompose  admirablement la  substance qui
fait tourner les cheveux blanc.
  The composition of Grandjean is employed with great
success in  the radical cure of all diseases  of the hair,
bald heads, &c.   It is also  a powerful desolvent, and
admirably  decomposes the substance which causes the
hair to turn grey.
                               No. 1 Barclay-street.

  During  the six years in  which I have resided  in
America, I have observed, and my profession compels me
to deprécate, the usual and erroneous applications resorted
to in the treatment of the hair.  I will make a statement
in the case of children ;  they resemble the tender plant,
which increases in strength and beauty, according to the
degree of care or cultivation it receives in its early growth.
The  custom of washing the heads of children in cold
water, with whiskey, brandy, eau-de-cologne, rum, &c,
is most  injurious to the hair.  They require the  oc-
casional use of some generous composition, in preference
to applications of such  corrosive and spirituous liquids.
Water, the mildest, and perhaps the least  likely to affect
the hair, is  very injurious.  It dries the hair, and turns it
red ;  it makes it coarse and causes  it to fall, and likewise
destroys the roots; lastly, it creates rheumatic pains ; in
a word, water, and  all spirituous liquids,  are extremely
destructive  to the hair.
  I think I may state with certainty, that out of a hun-
dred  families, ninety-five are in the habit of employing
one or more of these spirits.   But, do we  not frequently
meet with young persons of eighteen or twenty years, and
even prior to this age, who, instead of possessing the full
and glossy ringlets adapted to youth, have, by these in-
jurious applications, reduced their hair to that palé colour, 
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which is the surest evidence of decay 1  And why should
a bountiful and indulgent nature have deprived the in-
habitants of this country of so beautiful and valuable an
ornament 1  Is it natural that, at this early period of their
existence, they should be  compelled to have  recourse to
artificial  expedients?  How much dread and dismay
must  they not experience at the thought of wearing  a
wig or of dyeing the hair ?  Of dyeing the hair!  Ün-
doubtedly this is your only remedy, unless you have the
good  fortune to meet with  an artist,  who by his cióse
imitation of nature, is enabled to deceive  the most pierc-
ing eye; if not you  will be corapelled to make use of
whatever the most infamous quackery can invent.   Be-
fore you resolve to dye  the hair,  in imitation of those
dark eye-brows, reflect that all these powders and liquids
contain the most  injurious substances—litharge, lime,
and a great many others equally mild in their nature.
  But these cruel  inventions,  though applied with the
strictest care, are  inevitably discovered  by the different
shades they present.  To apply this infernal composition,
we must, once  a  month, cali in  the  assistance of an
adept of this dreadful art.  By omitting  to do this, the
hair,  instead  of retaining its  glossy tinge, assumes the
most  indescribable  colours, red, blue, violet, green, and
in some cases the colour  of the ñame of burning spirits.
The  consequences  have  now   unfolded  themselves.
"Where, now, are those locks and waving tresses, through
which your taper fingers have so  often sported, and
whose soft  touch has  charmed  you into a  pleasing
revery'.*  Ah !  at  what frightful visión are you startled?
They are changed ;  the  horrid dye has deceived you.
Your hand, stained with  the  pernicious drug, recoils in
horror.   The truth at last flashes on your mind—those
beautiful ringlets are faded for ever.  (See lastpage.)
   To the causes  already mentioned, there are several
exceptions.   In the  first  place, the people of the south
lose their hair  at an earlier  age  than is  assigned by
nature:  the intense heat of the sun affects the air they
breathe ; the agitation of the  atmosphere produces a dry
and consuming wind;  the parched  soil over which  it 
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takes its course, is never refreshed.  To relieve the brain
from this scorching heat, the head throws off a continual
perspiration, which tends to decay the  roots, and to ab-
sorb the vivifying moisture.
   Secondly,  the  sudden change of the hair from black
to white.
   Thirdly, the total or partial loss of the hair.
   The second exception is brought on by a few causes ;
fear, or^sudden fright, grief and fractures of the skull,
which are sometimes covered with gray hair.  I could
cite many examples in proof of this statement, if a truth
so  well known required any.  There  are few persons
who have not seen. or heard the fact, that the  hair has
been changed from black to white in the course of one
night, and that ithas been caused by sudden  fright.  In
the third exception, the fall is produced by a variety  of
causes, most of which can  be guarded  against; by in-
temperance and excess of all kinds—by severe study to
a late hour—by the use of soap and water, and all spirit-
uous liquids—by wearing caps—and by frequent appli-
cation of the curling irons—by neglecting to cut the hair,
and thus weakening the roots—also, by those diseases
which affect the vetebral  column, the stomach, or the
brain—and lastly, by too frequent a  use of  the  brush.
Particular attention should be paid to the choice of this
árdele.   The hard brush, usually preferred, is in reality
suited to very few.  It certainly clears the head of a large
portion  ofdandriff, but in what manner? it forces itfrom
the skin before it lias arrived at a proper head: the vio-
lence of the remedy produces a  fresh  irritation, which
increases the  loss of  the  hair, and  fatigues the roots.
The  truth of this  is evident, from the fact,  that, after
clearing the head of the dandriff by the use of the hard
brush, an increased quantity is sure to spring up in the
course of two or three days.
  I again repeat that the hair should  be washed as sel-
dom as possible, and whenever this operation  is perform-
ed,  particular care must be taken to rub it perfectly dry.
A considerable quantity of this composition  should be
afterwards applied, especially to the roots.  By  omitting 
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to do this the hair will turn either red or gray, and the
person may feel himself happy if he escape rheumatic
pains,  &c.  For  the advantage of those who are un-
willing to forego the habit of washing the hair, it is my
intention to prepare  a liquid, which will give  an ad-
mirable lustre to the hair, and prevent those burning
irritations of the epidermis.  It is made from a filtration
of the yolk of eggs,  and the infusión of two vegetables
from which I extract the aqueous fluid.  By  diluting
this with distilled water, I have produced a mild and ex-
tremely innocent composition.  The earth, in  fact, is
filled with the rarest gifts—the plants and animáis are
destined to the use, or to relieve the infirmities of man.
All things  are for his  convenience, if he knew now to
apply them to  his use.  And by the law of nature the
same things are either beneficial or injurious, according
to the use he puts them  to.
   The moulting season for birds and other animáis is,
like the season for vegetation, later in this country than
in similar latitudes  in  Europe.  The shedding of the
hair,  in the human system, depends  upon the  same
causes which opérate in the case of the brute creation—
namely,  the surcease of the vitality of the cutaneous
system under the influence of heat.  The bulbs, which
remain almost paralyzed during a long winter,  expe-
rience at this season a sort of hyper-secretion of a cornate
substance, which compels the oíd capillary tubes to give
place  to the new ones,  full of a new matter, secretea by
the bulbs.  In the  human  system, this is like to take
place where the hair is  not kept frequently cut.
   Every one knows that the hair  grows morerapidly
in summer than  in  winter,  in consequence of the in-
creased vitality of the skin ;  but at the same time,  if the
nourishing fluid be  too active in its operation, a second
shedding of the hair is produced  before the succeeding
winter, and this  1  have remarked in  many instances,
where the loss has been  complete and irrecoverable.
Cases of  incipient baldness  should  be  treated with the
utmost care, for it is not always easy to repair the loss,
especially where the proffered remedies have been un- 
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duly neglected.  To effect a restoration of the hair, the
whole object must be to excite and preserve the vitality
of the roots,  and this may be  done by a treatment at
once simple and easy.  The employment of Grandjean's
composition will be found to answer thedesired end—ac-
companied as it is,  with ampie prescriptions, adapted to
different cases, and different constitutions.   It arrests the
falling off of the hair, prevenís tendency to turn gray,
and imparts  to it an admirable gloss.   Consultation, at
No. 1, Barclay street.
   Sd3 There are certain maladies incident to the human
fíame, which produce a prolonged and total languor and
prostration of the whole system: henee the skin becomes
dried and parched  through disease,  and the hair, in its
turn, from the same causes, undergoes the same  altera-
tion.   The consequences  of these  maladies vary, ac-
cordingly, as  circumstances vary.   In some cases, the
disorder is, by little and little, dissipated, and the hair
gradually resumes  its natural moistness, softness, and
brillianey ; in others—and this by far the most frequent
result—the irritation about the roots of the hair occasions
its falling  off, and, oftentimes, its  entire loss.   Under
these  circumstances, the only  application resorted to
should be such as will have a tendency to restore to the
functions of the skin upon the head  a proper and neces-
sary degree of activity and  strength.  The daily use of
the  comb and brush, together with Grandjean's un-
rivalled compositions, are all that are necessary to effect
this desirable object, and are the only cosmetics  which
should be  employed at the present  for the preservation
or restoration  of that  great essential to human  come-
liness and beauty, the hair.
   All  authors have laid down the color of Hair as a
characteristic mark of  the temperament.  Black Hair is
the emblem  of strength and vigor.   An athletic figure
with light hair' would appear an object of ridicule.   This
last shade is   the attribute of weakness and indolence.
Painters have given it to figures that are not expressive
of strong  passions  or  of great and  heroic actions.  In
voluptuous paintings of the graces, beauty, &c., by  adorn- 
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ing the head of youth, this ornament, as it were, am-
mates the canvass.  The black and  light varieties, m-
cluding  their respective  shades, are  met with in both
sexes nearly in equal proportion.  But let us only reflect
a moment upon the impressions we receive from the sex,
as far as relates to the shades allotted to  the individual,
abstractedly  from every other  consideration, and we
shall find that  the female,  adorned with light hair,
forcibly impresses upon  us a  sense of beauty, united to
weakness—an irresistible appeal for  protection.   The
very word even by  which this subject is described is ex-
pressive  ofthis double  attribute.  The  phrase  Bruñe
Piquante (black-eyed maid,) on the contrary,  forcibly
conveys an idea of strength and beauty united.   Beauty,
then, is an attracting gift, which feraales enjoy in com-
mon, but which, being  variously modified  by  exterior
form, entice and attract either by interesting our feeüngs,
or by exciting them, &c. Languid eyes are frequently
associated with light hair, while the black is generally
the appendage of a sparkling eye and vivacity ready to
break loóse from its bounds.
   The following are the principal rules to be observed in
the treatment of the hair.
   lst. To have it cut at least once a month.  By attend-
ing to this, the roots are strengthened,  and the circulation
of the sap or vi vi fy ing moisture is seldom impeded by
any obstruction in  the  capillary tubes, which decrease
in strength, in  proportion with the length of the hair.
A skiful and experienced hand, capable  of attaining
the  younger and shortest  hair, without destroying the
elegance of the cut, is a great desiderátum in this opera-
tion.  I am strenuous in recommending a strict attention
to this first rule, and likewise to the use ofthis admirable
composition.   Be  careful  to  keep the head covered  for
some time after the hair has been cut.   The fresh end9
possess a certain sensibility for two  or three  days after
 the application of the scissors.
   2dly.  After sickness, when the patient has been con-
 fined to his bed for a fortnight, observe to cut the hair a9
 short as possible,  and for some time to continué, every 
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evening, the use of Grandjean's paste and the liquid in
the  morning, which  should  be rubbed well in at the
roots.  By inattention to this  second rule, there is danger
of a general loss  of the hair,  which probably may grow
again, but never of the same quality,or of the same colour.
   3dly.   To make use of what I desígnate by the ñame
of the " air bath," that is, as  often as possible,  to renew
the air under the hat or cap.  It will be found extremely
salutary to expose the head to the morning air, in order
to purify and  disperse the vapors and  transpirations of
the night; at the same time care must be taken to avoid
a draft or violent  current of air.   In  this case, we  may
frequently prevent a  cold, by a copious  application of
Grandjean's paste in the evening, and the liquid in the
morning, to the skin of the head.
   4thly.  A voyage by sea is very good for the preserva-
tion of the hair.   It  will  be  well to rub  the roots three
times a week with this composition :  this will rectify the
great humidity produced from the alkali impregnated in
the air and sea-water.   The hair may otherwise become
enveloped with a slight crust, and extremely difficult to
get rid of.
   5thly.  A few  days before  an accouchement, the hair
should be well combed and cut at the ends, and the  roots
well rubbed with this composition ; then bind them  with
about half a yard of  silk  string, so as  not to strain the
roots; then fold  them in braid of three strands, and se-
cure them well at the end so that no  hair can escape.
Afterwards, when the hair has regained  strength,  let it
be recombed with the greatest care.  In this manner the
loóse hair will be removed without injuring the roots, and
finally make use of Grandjean's paste in the  evening,
and the liquid in the morning, as already stated.   By
pursuing this method,  the ladies will be relieved from those
unpleasant consequences, to which they have been sub-
ject before this fortúnate discovery.
  6thly.  Whenever  a lady  has her hair dressed, she
should be particular in having it frizzed after the follow-
ing manner:  Take  the hair at the end, and let the ap-
plications of the comb be made one after  the other, and 
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 not one over the  other; following the first method, the
 hair can be  easily disentangled,  by combing it first at
 the end, and then it can be gradually unfrizzed ; by the
 other method, the hair is split and destoyed, and cannot
 be unfrizzed without a considerable loss of hair.  I can
 also state from experience, that the hair, when burnt, or
 broken off, takes a much greater time to grow, than when
 it is cut.
   7thly. Children should have the hair, every day brush-
 ed with the softest brush that can be obtained, except on
 numbers 13 and 14.   Then take a small quantity ofthis
 composition on the palm of the hand, and rub it gently
 over the head.  This will allay the slight, though health-
 ful irritation,  produced  by  the  use of  the soft brush.
 This course should be pursued, in preference to that iu
 general use, which has an  injurious tendency upon the
 hair, and makes it weak and unsightly.   At a very early
 age (nevertheless  not before the hair has grown to full
 vigour, which in some children is only in their 3d or 4th
 year) and up to their lOth or 12th year,  the hair should
 be  cut  very short,  especially in boys. This can be ef-
 fected with some taste, by allowing the  hair  to grow a
 little ionger on numbers 13 and 14.  It is a great pity to
 weaken the young roots, for the useless pleasure of seeing
 them wear a few ringlets, which always  turn red at the
yoints.
  8th.   Children  should very  seldom have  the head
 shaved  ; I can convince those that are desirous of  Con-
 sulting me, that this can, in  most cases, be avoided.
  9th.  I could advance innumerable arguments against
the use of the different oils  usually applied to the hair.
It will be sufficient to request those who are willing to be
convinced of this, to refer to  the chemist; they will learn
that oil  is extremely injurious to the hair.  Oil of olives,
in appearance so mild, is a dry and consuming substance.
Oil, instead of preserving, is hurtful to the hair, and only
gives it  a momentary lustre.
  lOth.  Although solid fat substances are not injurious
to the hair, yet, how erroneous is the opinión that bear's
grease, Macassar oil, and the thousand different Pomata 
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which appear in every colour, increase the growth of the
hair!   The inventors of these have been more engaged
in the choice of pots and bottles, in looking up for some
unheard-of ñame, or composing a commendatory descrip-
tion, than for any thing else.  Bear's grease perhaps on
account of its rough ñame, is by many considered a most
superior article.  1 wished,  by observation, to convince
myself of the truth of the fact, and from what it derived
its great virtue.  I have examined the different species
of the bear tribe—the black bear of Canadá—the grizzly
bear of the Pyrenees and Rocky Mountains, and have
even met with the good fortune of experimenting on the
great white bear of the  Arctic Ocean!   From the great
fame  of this grease, I even expected to meet with a  race
of bears, whose fur grew out  of the fat itself, which, in
all probability, is the one so  highly esteemed by ama-
teurs.  The first which carne under my observation, soon
undeceived me ;  it was the brown  bear, or the great  con-
sumer of honey, as Buffon emphatically calis him.  I
observed that the fat on his beautiful person was bestow-
ed upon  him  by nature,  rather to aid and  give more
freedom to his gymnastic movements,  than  to nourish
his furry tubes.  1 likewise remarked, that besides the
different skins, the fat was covered with a  small  mem-
brane, of so fine a texture as to appear  appropriated
more  tothe preservation of the fat, than to give nourteh-
ment to the roots of the fur, and  that these  are  never
found below the third skin from the epidermis.  In  fact,
the distance of the roots  from the fat,  is a positive evi-
dence, that the idea of its giving strengh to the hair is
quite  fantastic.  The person  who first  made use of it
soon obtained prosely tes: knowing the bear to be covered
with  the thickest hair, they have taken it for granted,
that the fat must possess most wonderful qualities.   But
why should they suppose the fat to nourish the hair rather
than the blood ? By pressing the tube between the thumb-
nail and that of the forefinger, it emits, in the same man-
ner as the capillary tubes, a slight san guiñe  substance,
which most certaj¿l^eiang| to the blood, and not to the
fat.   I readily áfltóS^tfiát4 «lájfs ,grease does not injure 
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the hair; but, in my opinión, it is of no more benefit to
it than a lump of tallow.
  llth.  I say nothing against the use of Macassar oil
further than referring back to  my ninth observation, in
which I stated, that oil of all kinds was injurious to the
hair.  We may likewise form our opinión of the preten-
tions of the inventor himself, who expresses himself very
nearly in these words. — " The use of Macassar oil upon
artifical hair, will give to it a  natural appearance,  and,
by regularly using it on the hair,  it renders it highly friz-
zed."  This is quite enough, and requires no refutation.
   12th.  When a fall of the hair is perceivable, should
the head be shaved?   In some cases it ought to be, and
in others not.   The causes of  this are too numerous to
state in this treatise.  To those who consult me, I will
give the necessary prescription, which depends entirely
upon the cause of its falL

              GRAY   H AIR.

   13th.  By attending to the following precaution, we
may  prevent the hair from becoming gray, or, at least,
rctard the progress of it: — By having the hair cut very
often, and, every  evening, separating the  hair with the
first tooth of the comb; then brush it with much care, so
as to  remove all foreign substances that might injure its
growth ; and in each división thus made with the comb,
to rub the epidermis  with the  paste  until you think
it has had time to penétrate into the skin.  This should
be done principally on numbers  8,  9,  and 19, the hair
which covers these being  the first to turn gray; and
every morning, to use the fine tooth comb, in order to
carry away the small secretion  emitted from  the tubes
during the night, and then apply the liquid in the morn-
ing.  We must be careful not  to wound the skin, during
this operation; otherwise we destroy the epidermis, and
produce dandriff.   By  observing these  precautions, we
may rest confident  of retaining  a beautiful and natural
head of hair, until that perk>d^hfyyime destroys, with
his unsparing scytheJÜ^pJpW*PB8^^>eautiful hair.
 
 
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