In the spring of 1880 the patient
exhibited signs of infiltration of the apex of the right lung,
and afterward a violent headache came on. At the time of the
report the patient presented the appearance shown in Figure 89.
The complexion was delicate throughout, the eyelashes and eyelids
dark brown, the moustache and whiskers blond, and in the latter
were a few groups of white hair. The white patches were chiefly
on the left side of the head. The hairs growing on them were
unpigmented, but otherwise normal. The patient stated that his
head never sweated. He was stout and exhibited no signs of
internal disease, except at the apex of the right lung.
Anomalous Color Changes of the Hair.--The hair is liable to
undergo certain changes of color connected with some modification
of that part of the bulb secreting its coloring-matter. Alibert,
quoted by Rayer, gives us a report of the case of a young lady
who, after a severe fever which followed a very difficult labor,
lost a fine head of hair during a discharge of viscid fluid,
which inundated the head in every part. He tells us, further,
that the hair grew again of a deep black color after the recovery
of the patient. The same writer tells of the case of James B--,
born with brown hair, who, having lost it all during the course
of a sickness, had it replaced with a crop of the brightest red.
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