I will describe the wrinkles first, and then their results, with
examples, in the numerous fashions of the hairs. Wrinkles are of two
kinds, pathological and physiological, in other words the former are
the results of degeneration and wasting of the subcutaneous fat and
loss of its normal elasticity, and are found in the faces of nearly all
men and women, with advancing age, and they are the subject of much
distress in the fair sex and a good deal of “beauty doctoring.” The
latter are the result of long-continued and repeated action of certain
small muscles. The former are numerous, shallow and fine, the latter
few and comparatively deep. The difference between elderly women and
men in respect of the projecting hairs is not that men have many more
physiological wrinkles, but that the hairs of women in this region do
not stiffen and grow long nearly so much as those of men.
There are three groups of wrinkles found on the human forehead and
face, _vertical_, _arched_ or horizontal and _orbital_. This division
of wrinkles is a natural one, for each group is produced by the action
of different muscles, the _vertical_ by the corrugator muscle, which is
a narrow band passing from under the frontalis muscle inwards, where it
is attached to the bone between the two eyebrows; the _arched_ by the
action of the frontalis muscle, one which moves the scalp and in doing
so elevates the eyebrows; the _orbital_ by the elliptic orbicularis
muscle which closes the eyelids. These muscles are shown in Fig. 20.
_Vertical_ wrinkles are found in the central region of the forehead
and sometimes occupy the middle line with a deep furrow, more often
they are bilateral and symmetrical, near the inner fourth part of the
eyebrow, and sometimes they are placed at different distances from the
middle line.
_Arched_ wrinkles extend over the forehead in a series of lines
which are usually concentric with the curve of the eyebrows, but are
sometimes nearly horizontal.
_Orbital_ wrinkles may lie in a radiating plan all round the outer
lower and inner borders of the orbit, and in some persons they are
found lying over the curves of the orbicularis muscle itself.
Some Examples.
The variations in the long hairs of men’s eyebrows present some very
singular tufts, and I have added below nine figures of certain cases
examined and noted by myself, and these are, I hope, plain enough
without any more detailed account than is given in the few words
describing each.
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