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Our special process used in making Capsuloids is never
used and never has been used outside our Laboratory. It
is known only to the Capsuloid Company, Ltd., and has
never at any time been communicated to any other person
or firm. This material is then enclosed in little
pear-shaped gelatine capsules which are made of the
finest and purest gelatine. As a result of our special
process, Capsuloids have that particular and remarkable
effect upon the hair through the medium of the blood
which is so well and widely known. There is no other
preparation which possesses anything like the same
effect.
Capsuloids not only cause the death of those harmful
germs which we have proved to be the cause of falling
out and prematurely grey hair, but they also restore
the injured growing cells of the hair roots, and
nourish them, and cause them to multiply so that
the roots become firm and grow rapidly, producing
thick and luxuriant hair, and where there has been
premature greyness, it is also cured. Recent scientific
investigation has definitely proved this, and has
demonstrated that hair cannot be made to grow by using
external preparations.
Directions. To stop falling out of the hair and to
restore the colour to prematurely grey hair, adults
should take two, or in very severe cases three,
capsuloids before eating or with the first part of each
meal, three times daily. The doses for younger persons
is one or two with each meal. Capsuloids never cause
constipation or indigestion, nor do they in any way
upset the stomach, or any part of the system.
A booklet of 20 pages was enclosed in the package, in which the above
statements were repeated and further elaborated with the aid of a
diagram of the root of a hair, with blood-vessels, oil gland, “growing
cells containing harmful germs,” etc.
The capsuloids were elongated gelatine capsules containing a dark
material, the average contents of one weighing 3·4 grains. The material
yielded 32 per cent. to a solvent suitable for extracting fats, and
this portion proved to be a mixture of about equal parts of a neutral
oil and a fatty acid, agreeing in their characters with olive oil and
oleic acid, respectively. Extraction of the residue with alcohol then
removed 10 per cent. of an aromatic balsamic substance, generally
resembling Peruvian balsam, but lighter in colour; a mixture of
equal parts of Peruvian balsam and purified storax gave a substance
practically identical. The residue, insoluble in both solvents, was
a red-brown powder, which was found by its characters to be dried
haemoglobin. Careful search was made for arsenic, alkaloids, and other
ingredients, but nothing else was detected. The results indicated the
following formula for the contents of the capsules:
Haemoglobin 1·97 grain.
Olive oil }
Oleic acid } of each 0·54 ”
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