The text discusses how climate affects hair texture and describes various hair types seen in different regions and ethnic groups, such as straight, curly, and frizzy hair. It mentions historical observations, like those of Herodotus about the Moors, and anecdotes about hair color changes with age in certain peoples. Proverbs related to hair are also included, highlighting cultural viewpoints on aging.
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and follows the region of the sky. Thus, a Dry Warm Sky often results in curly, frizzy hair like that seen among the Egyptians, Arabs, Indians, Italians, and most French. Even though one observes the Spaniards mostly with straight and sleek hair, which some attribute to the frequent use of oil, there are nevertheless several among them with curly hair. The Cold Countries, such as England, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden typically show softer, straight hair and often blond, yellowish, or common brown hair. Also, in all kinds, it changes with age to gray. Herodotus says that the Moors who live in the east, have straight hair; But no people have more curly hair than the Moors in Libya. The children who have curly hair in their youth often change it to straight hanging hair when they grow old. And those who have straight hair in their youth, often change it to curly hair when they grow old. Frequently, curly hair in old age becomes hard and horsehair-like. Even in gray hair, yet everything is without law or rule.
Of the Pandoras, a people in India, it is said that in their youth they mostly have white hair, which becomes completely black in old age. There are also testimonies that these people sometimes grew to two hundred years old without gray hair. However, white hair makes them gray in youth: And the proverb goes; Early gray, late wise. And although hair brings some ornaments to dressed figures, when it has a beautiful length, it remains very remarkable.