SOME FREAKS OF THE HAIR.
One of the most curious of the numerou* abnormalities manifested in the human hair is albinism. Dr. Barthohn gives a good instance, that of a child born with one half of its head covered with white hair and the other half covered with jet black. Sibley mentions a parallel case, with this difference, thab the combination in the Somersetshire girl he saw was LI ick and red instead of black and white. The same physician details anothet example of this peculiar condition. He saw a yont.li who had the hair on the right side of the head long, straight, and brown, and that on the left side short, woolly, and black. Here, however, the explanation is* simple. The youth's father was a white man, while his mother was a nee-res?. The same thing has been observed when the lather is a negro and the mother white. Dr. Rizzoli mentions a curious case oi partial albinism which showed itself in another form— that of a lock of long white hair growing from the top of the fore head, while the rest of the hair of the head was of a dark colour. This white •lock, it is asserted, lias been cogenital in the one family for over two hundred years. Twenty-three individuals in six generations had each borne the distinguishing mark. ' We have heard of a young man who had his peculiar characteristic in a patch pf white hair on hia eyebrow, and anathet streak of the same colour one inch wide and three inches long across his scalp near the middle of the head.
