Note 237 — SOAP.
William Johnston translation
Fortior et tortos servat vesica capillos, Et mutat Latias spuma Batava comas.—Mart. viii. 23, 19.
The first line of the above proves that people then covered their heads, in the night-time, with a bladder to keep their hair, after it was dressed, from being deranged; and a bladder was undoubtedly as fit for that use as the nets and cauls employed for the like purpose at present.