/oss/taxonomy/term/4451/all en /oss/article/health/no-need-shave-world-why-your-beard-not-problem-age-covid <p>In 1843 <a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=VVAsAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA353&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22deeming%20the%20subject%22&f=false">a letter to the editor</a> entitled “The growth of the beard medically considered” published in the <i>Boston Medical and Surgical Journal</i> argued that beards were medicinally beneficial, and that “the practice of <i>shaving the beard,</i> and thus depriving the face, throat and chest of that efficient protection which nature has provided” was responsible for the “numerous diseases of the respiratory organs with which mankind are affli</p> Fri, 03 Apr 2020 17:30:32 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 8207 at /oss