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A lady retiring to bed, and ordering her maid to look after her artificial aids to beauty (wig, teeth, glass eye etc.). Coloured etching by P. Roberts after G.M Woodward.

Laurus nobilis (Bay laurel)

Two men, one cutting his finger-nails with a pair of scissors. Oil painting.

The circumcision of Christ. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.

Arctium lappa (Burdock)

Franz Joseph Gall measuring the head of a bald, elegantly dressed old lady; her pet poodle is entwined in her wig on a chair. Coloured aquatint by F.C. Hunt after E.F. Lambert, ca. 1823.

"No secret remedy": natural solutions to baldness and corns. Lithograph after J. Bahr, 1909.

The circumcision of Christ. Plaster sculpture.

The etiology, pathology, and treatment of baldness & greyness / by Tom Robinson.

The shorn Samson is rebuffed by Delilah. Engraving by C. Simonneau after F. Verdier, 1698.

The truth about women's hair loss : what really works for treating and preventing thinning hair / Spencer David Kobren ; foreword by Angela M. Christiano.

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The circumcision of Christ. Plaster sculpture.

The etiology, pathology, and treatment of baldness & greyness / by Tom Robinson.

The shorn Samson is rebuffed by Delilah. Engraving by C. Simonneau after F. Verdier, 1698.

The truth about women's hair loss : what really works for treating and preventing thinning hair / Spencer David Kobren ; foreword by Angela M. Christiano.

Arctium lappa (Burdock)