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Article: ELECTROLYSIS FACES FEARS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 29, 1988
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Ever since electrolysis, or permanent hair removal, was developed
in the late 1800s, the procedure has remained in a categorical
limbo between the beauty business and the medical profession.
"Electrolysis was developed by doctors in 1875," says Dr.
Richard F. Wagner Jr., an associate professor at the University of
Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. "But later, a judge ruled,
mistakenly, that electrolysis was like barbering, because the
practitioners worked on dead hair. His mistake was in not realizing
that the electrologist is working on the hair follicle, which is a
living tissue, and that occasionally, he or she can draw blood in
the course of the treatment," says Wagner.
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