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effectual cure " ; or, ft if the woole of a hare be 

 burned to ashes, and mingled with oyle of myrtles, 

 Buls gall, Beaten alume, and so warmed and 

 annointed uppon the heade, it stayeth the falling 

 away of the haire." In cases of actual b ildness, 

 the " blood of a mole baing killed, spread or 

 annointed upon the head,, wil very speedily renew 

 and bring the haires againe"; or l( the skinne of 

 the hedgehog being rosted with the head and 

 afterwards beate into powder, and if you add 

 thereunto Beares-grease it will restore unto a bald 

 man his head of haire againe, if the place be 

 rubbed untill it be ready to bleed" ; and, lastly, 

 "If one make a small candle of paper and cowes 

 marrow, setting the same on fire uuder his browes 

 or eyelids, which are balde without haire and often 

 annoynting the place he shall have very decent 

 and comely hair grow thereupon/' 



In conclusion, we can only say that if the terrible 

 mixtures prescribed in all good faith by Topsell 

 of which those given above are but a very small 

 and random collection, were used by our ancestors, 

 we can only marvel at their wonderful faiDh and 

 hardihood. 



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