He placed his entire savings of $1100 on
the turn of a card. He was under tremendous nervous excitement
while the cards were being dealt. The next day his hair was
perfectly white.
"In the same article is the statement that the jet-black hair of
the Pacific Islanders does not turn gray gradually, but when it
does turn it is sudden, usually the result of fright or sudden
emotions."
D'Alben, quoted by Fournier, describes a young man of
twenty-four, an officer in the regiment of Touraine in 1781, who
spent the night in carnal dissipation with a mulatto, after which
he had violent spasms, rendering flexion of the body impossible.
His beard and hair on the right side of the body was found as
white as snow, the left side being unchanged. He appeared before
the Faculte de Montpelier, and though cured of his nervous
symptoms his hair was still white, and no suggestion of relief
was offered him.
Louis of Bavaria, who died in 1294, on learning of the innocence
of his wife, whom he had put to death on a suspicion of her
infidelity, had a change of color in his hair, which became white
almost immediately. Vauvilliers, the celebrated Hellenist, became
white-haired almost immediately after a terrible dream, and
Brizard, the comedian, experienced the same change after a narrow
escape from drowning in the Rhone.
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