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CARE OF THE HAIR
When I was a post-graduate student, at Cambridge, I went to a
lecture by an eminent Professor on "The Minor Horrors of War."
The lecture was all about n*t* and b*g*.
It is still not quite proper and polite to mention these little creatures,
but elsewhere it is an act of obligation to write about this matter so far as
school children are concerned. It is a fallacy to suppose that children
catch them from each other at school; the plain, blunt fact is that, without
saying this is impossible, it is odds on every time that they caught
them at home. Just as there has been a slight improvement in the diabolical
instruments of torture that women put on their feet, so there has been some
slight improvement in recent years in the way that women dress their hair,
but so long as this "minor horror of peace" remains I can only insist it is
positively wrong, as I have said before, for any woman to have a "hair
do" which means that she does not brush her hair twice a day, and wash her
hair once a week. We have no reliable statistics with regard to the adult
population, but the figures which I have quoted, and which have to do
with children, show that there is still considerable room for improvement.
With regard to hair-do's for men, it would require a game of hide
and seek to find out where it is done, and how much it is done, because it
is done with all the caution of a Secret Society, but I am told that it is becoming
quite the fashion among certain men of the younger generation, and
if this goes on men, who up to the present have been relatively free from the
stigma of n*t* and b*g*, will find that they, too, have to put their house
in order.
Fortunately, in this county these intruders do not spend a lot of their
time spreading disease, but this could happen and I cannot believe it is
very healthy to harbour these visitors.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RHESUS FACTOR
IN PREGNANCY
(I am indebted to Mr. B. G. Spiers, F.R.C.S., Consultant Obstetrician
and Gynaecologist, for the following article.)
The Rhesus Factor, which is the name given to one of the constituents
of the red blood cells, derives its name from the fact that it was first
discovered in the Rhesus monkey. Since the discovery of this actor,
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