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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 01, 1873
Page
11
The writer urges public enlightenment on hair care and the supposed benefits of Cantharides Oil and Spanish Fly Oil for hair growth. It extols hair as essential to health and beauty, cites historical reverence from Assyrians to poets, and notes hair’s biological composition per Liebig while arguing baldness endangers health.
An 19th century advertisement for Panish Fly as an active ingredient in Alex Ross cantharides oil promising rapid whisker growth and hair thickening. It notes a price of 3s 6d plus 54 postage stamps and provides the London address 248 High Holborn opposite Day and Martin's with additional items Hair Dye and Face Powder priced at 3s 6d and 1s respectively.
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