BALD AS AN EGG
BALD AS AN EGG
(Baldness Remedies Through the Ages)
Author(s): Radivoj RadićSubject(s): History, Middle Ages, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century
Published by: Naučno društvo za istoriju zdravstvene kulture
Keywords: baldness; drugs; recipes; Pliny the Elder; Byzantine medical treatise; The Hodoch Code; Serbian folk medicine
Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses medical prescriptions against baldness in a wide period from antiquity to the 19th century. Attention is first paid to the remedies that Pliny the Elder proposed in the 1st century in his work Naturalis Historia. Then, the data from a Byzantine medical treatise dating from the middle of the 11th to the second half of the 14th century are summarized. Finally, the recipes were presented from The Hodoch Code, a Serbian therapeutic anthology from the end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century. Medications, which sometimes are accompanied by superstitions recommended by Serbian folk medicine, are also included.
Journal: Acta historiae medicinae, stomatologiae, pharmaciae, medicinae veterinariae
- Issue Year: 42/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 7-13
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English, Serbian