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of baldness among men. Women, who wear hats that sit lightly upon 

 the head, are seldom bald. In men the pressure of the tight hatband 

 cuts off the blood supplying the roots of the hair with nutriment, and 

 thus causes the death of the hair. I have known obstinate chronic 

 headache to disappear promptly upon the removal of a tight neck 

 dressing. These high, tight neck dressings which have been so much 

 the fashion recently have, in many cases, completely ruined the exquisite 

 contour of the neck. 



Another evil effect of modern clothing is that by its thickness, it 

 interferes with the excreting and respiratory action of the skin. The 

 work of excretion is thus either thrown upon other organs already over- 

 taxed, or upon some tissue which the body selects as a possible medium 

 for elimination. Thus it is likely that catarrh is always caused by the 

 inactivity of the skin. The matter thus left in the body seeks egress 

 by means of the mucous membrane, which is merely a kind of internal 

 skin, and so we have catarrh. Condensed from Health Culture. 



