20 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS It is of interest that in females the hair on the scalp grows faster than that of males, but the reverse is true with axillary hair. The eyebrows, on the other hand, grow at the same rate in both sexes. When hair ceases SLIDE 19 Reconstruction of an axillary apocrine gland to show its relative size, the extent to which it is coiled, the anastomosis of the coils, and its relation to a hair follicle. Clefts appear here and there in the tubule adjacent coils seem to have fused together and some coils terminate in blind sacs. The transition between the secretory tubule and the duct occurs at the arrow. The duct opens into the pilosebaceous canal just above the grape-like cluster of sebaceous glands.

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