A BIT OF HISTORY ON OVER hirsutism

Perhaps, after the prehistoric man through a long evolution (and perhaps not without the participation of the Creator - as someone like) got rid of superfluous hair on his body, hairy fellow began to attract his attention. People composing legends in an attempt to explain the appearance of facial hair. So, suddenly appeared beard and mustache a woman in some time considered a sign of God’s chosen, the other - a sign of connection with the devil. According to the legend of the holy Vilgeforte, the daughter of a pagan king of Portugal, God saved her from having to marry the hated suitor, gave her a mustache and beard. During the Holy Inquisition mustache and beard in women sign of God’s chosen is not considered, and hair removal was done with the body at the stake before a gathering of a large audience. Even in our times of dark hair on the face of women were regarded as a manifestation of an unhappy love affair. As described in the middle of last century, if the rapid growth of hair on the face of a girl abandoned by her lover, doctors found that the cause of love.

Strangely enough, but the women, whose face was covered with dark hair, always had a stunning success among men rarely remain unmarried and has always been in sight of the audience. During the XIX and early XX century “bearded” women are regularly performed in circuses and variety shows, what caused delight and surprise people.

Lady Olga had a long and thick beard, which descended to his chest. In the history of hirsutism, it is one of the most successful examples of a successful career. Born in 1871 in Wilmington, South Carolina, and named as Jane Barnell, she has two years of age had a long beard. Her mother, who feared condemnation by the neighbors, Jane has sold to the circus. However, the girl’s father found her and returned home. In 1892, on their own Jane returned to the circus, where she worked until her death in 1940.

Clementine Deleite became the most famous French woman with a beard. According to the witnesses, in 1939, the headlines about her death was more than those that spoke about the anniversary of Adolph Hitler. Born in March 1865 in a small town on the banks of the Moselle, at age 20 Clementine already regularly relieved his chin and cheeks of dense vegetation. However, this did not prevent her marrying a local baker, and live a happy life. As the owner of the cafe, Clementine Deleite every morning before opening went to the barber to shave to leave no trace of prickly cheek. Once one of the cafe told me enthusiastically about a woman with a beard, which he had seen on the market. Cater Clementine could not resist and argue that he could grow a beard. The visitor lost a bet, Clementine got the money, and a cafe renamed “Cafe at the bearded woman.” Only after the death of her husband in 1928, Clementine Deleite decided to join a traveling circus. Along with his adopted daughter, bearded celebrity France traveled the world.

Annie Jones, born in Virginia, in 1865 at the age of 4 years was a member of the famous circus Barnum. After several months of hard work the girl disappeared and showed up in New York, where she exhibited at the show, Mr. Wicks, pretending to be a father. Thanks to his long beard, Annie traveled a lot, was represented by many kings, and kings, to be published twice married. In 1902 at the age of 37 years, Annie Jones died, leaving in the mind’s own unforgettable image.

The object of steadfast attention of the public were not only women wearing beards and men-wolves, whose bodies were thickly covered with black hair. Juliana Pastrana, submitted by the owner of the circus as a female gorilla, was erroneously assessed by Charles Darwin as an intermediate between ape and man. According to the witnesses who knew Julian close, it looks ugly woman was intelligent and knowledge-hungry man. She was married to his master, Julian Pastrana, died during childbirth. Her husband, Theodore Lent, as a seemingly normal person, but devoid of human feelings, embalmed body of his wife and child, and then sold them to the Cabinet of Curiosities. After many years of searching Theodore Lent found the girl resembled Julian Pastrana, who is married and from whom he had children. Calculation of acrobat did not materialize. All the children who wanted to show Lent in the circus freaks were born healthy. After the death of Theodor Tape, Zenor Pastrana as it was called after the marriage, successfully married a second time and left the show business.

However, the fate of being a man-wolf comprehended not only women. Adrian Zhevtychev, a native of the Caucasus, was one of the first men-wolves, speakers in France. Appeared before the French public in 1873, Adrian and his son, who was an exact copy of his father, had a dizzying success and a lot of money. Confident that he cursed, the star of the circus gave all the money the church.

Not an easy fate awaited another man-wolf, a native of Russia. As argued by impresario “wolf” Petr Fedorov, working under the pseudonym of Joey, a man-wolf to 14 years was brought up among the wolves, but his father was too wild to bring his son to Europe. In fact, advertising manager allegations were untrue. Joey, even though he was like a wolf, according to a weary amusement of the crowd, he knew four languages and was known as an intelligent man.

It is likely that in most cases the cause of wolf skins, people have beards, women have genetic syndromes. Although it is possible that some women had hirsutism caused by adrenal tumors or sklerokistozom ovaries.