Enchiridion medicum: containing the causes, signs, and cures of all those diseases, that do chiefly affect the body of man: divided into three books. With alphabetical tables of such matters as are therein contained. Whereunto is added a treatise, De facultatibus medicamentorum compositorum, & dosibus. / By Robert Bayfield.

CHAP. II.

ALOPECIA, is baldnesse, * 1.1 or falling off of the haire; expert Physicians do reckon nine kinds of defaults of the haire. First,

1. Contorsio, which is a curling or intang∣ling of the haire. Secondly,

2. Decoloratio, a deformity of the colour. Thirdly,

3. Quassatio, a splitting or cleaving asunder of the haire. Fourthly,

4. Fractio, which is a short breaking away of the haire, for it snappeth asunder. Fifthly,

5. Atrophia, a drying away, or consuming of the haire, for lack of food. Sixthly,

6. Canities, is when the haire before its due time becomes gray or white. Seventhly,

7. Defluxio, which is a falling away of the haire, like as in them who lost their naturall heat, or recovered after a long continued sick∣nesse. Eighthly,

8. Phiasis, is when the haire is coloured like a snake. The ninth and last is this,

9. Alopecia I now treat of.

The causes of Alopecia, * 1.2 are inflamed moy∣stures, whereby the haire before was fed; which through inflammation thereof is taken away.

If blood abound, open a vein, * 1.3 and take myr∣till seeds, and leaves, boyle them in plantin wa∣ter and red wine, and wash the head there∣with. Or

℞. Mellis purioris, vini cretici, * 1.4 urinae puero∣rum,

Lactis ana lb. * 1.5 j. Destillet. aqua, qua abluantur loca, unde pili decidunt. Fal∣lopius.

Notes

• * 1.1

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.2

  Causa.
• * 1.3

  Curatio. Venae sectio Fomentatio
• * 1.4

  Fallopius.
• * 1.5

  Aqua. Fallopius.