in the succeeding
years small patches of decolored hairs were observed also on the
anterior and lateral portions of the scalp. 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. White
and gray hair has also, under peculiar circumstances, been replaced by
hair of the same color as the individual had in youth. We are even
assured by Bruley that in 1798 the white hair of a woman sixty years of
age changed to black a few days before her death. The bulbs in this
case were found of great size, and appeared gorged with a substance
from which the hair derived its color. The white hairs that remained,
on the contrary, grew from shriveled bulbs much smaller than those
producing the black. This patient died of phthisis.

A very singular case, published early in the century, was that of a
woman whose hair, naturally fair, assumed a tawny red color as often as
she was affected with a certain fever, and returned to its natural hue
as soon as the symptoms abated. Villerme alludes to the case of a young
lady, sixteen years of age, who had never suffered except from trifling
headaches, and who, in the winter of 1817, perceived that the hair
began to f