There was some hair in the axillae and on the
pubes, but only the slightest down on the scalp, and even that
was absent on the skin. His maternal grandmother and uncle were
similarly affected; he was the youngest of 21 children, had never
been sick, and though not able to chew food in the ordinary
manner, he had never suffered from dyspepsia in any form. He was
married and had eight children. Of these, two girls lacked a
number of teeth, but had the ordinary quantity of hair. Hill
speaks of an aboriginal man in Queensland who was entirely devoid
of hair on the head, face, and every part of the body. He had a
sister, since dead, who was similarly hairless. Hill mentions the
accounts given of another black tribe, about 500 miles west of
Brisbane, that contained hairless members. This is very strange,
as the Australian aboriginals are a very hairy race of people.
Hutchinson mentions a boy of three and a half in whom there was
congenital absence of hair and an atrophic condition of the skin
and appendages. His mother was bald from the age of six, after
alopecia areata. Schede reports two cases of congenitally bald
children of a peasant woman (a boy of thirteen and a girl of six
months). They had both been born quite bald, and had remained so.
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