Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885, Dallinger, W. H. (William Henry), 1842-1909 · Philadelphia, Blakiston · leaf 1018
t of the shaft of the hair.The constituent fibres of the substance, which are marked out bythe delicate stria? that may be traced in longitudinal sections of thehair (B), may be separated from each other by crushing the hair,especially after it has been macerated for some time in sulphuric-acid ;… … Fig. 704.—Structure of human hair: A, external surface of the shaft, show-ing the transverse strias and jagged boundary caused by the imbrications ofthe cuticular layer; B, longitudinal section of the shaft, showing thefibrous character of the cortical substance, and the arrangement of…
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