TY  - JOUR
T1  - Studies on hair: With special reference to hypertrichosis
AU  - DANFORTH CH
Y1  - 1925/04/01
N1  - 10.1001/archderm.1925.02370040073005
JO  - Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
SP  - 494
EP  - 508
VL  - 11
IS  - 4
N2  - The production of hair is one of the fundamental characteristics which differentiate the mammals from other classes of vertebrates. Hair is as peculiar to the mammals as feathers are to the bird. It is present and, with few exceptions, well developed in every member of the class, while it is entirely lacking in all other vertebrates. It was a recognition of the value of hair from the systemist's standpoint that lead Oken to propose the term Trichozoa—hair animals—for his highest class of vertebrates. Although Oken's term never came into general use, the fact remains that it is as descriptive of the class as is the word Mammalia,1 which supplanted it.It is natural that a character so distinctive and of such morphologic importance as mammalian hair should attract the attention of many investigators. During the period of intense morphologic interest, which extended through the last decades of the
SN  - 0096-6029
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archderm.1925.02370040073005
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1925.02370040073005
ER  -