Bald as an Egg: Baldness Remedies Through the Ages

    January 2023 in “ Acta historiae medicinae, stomatologiae, pharmaciae, medicinae veterinariae ”
    Radivoj Radić
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    TLDR Historical baldness remedies were varied and often based on superstition.
    The paper explores historical remedies for baldness from antiquity to the 19th century, starting with Pliny the Elder's 1st-century Naturalis Historia. It then summarizes treatments from a Byzantine medical treatise (11th-14th century) and presents recipes from The Hodoch Code, a Serbian therapeutic anthology (14th-15th century). The study also includes medications and superstitions from Serbian folk medicine.
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