• Throughout the ages, hair has been linked to social and sexual attractiveness and has had
  a strong impact on self-esteem and confidence. Studies of the visual arts and literature show
  that anxieties related to hair loss are deeply rooted in human experience.
  
  
• For thousands of years, many have sought solutions to treat common hair loss,
  some of them bordering on the exotic:
  
  
  • The Egyptians used a mixture of dog paws, donkey hooves, dates and oil.
    
    
  • Cleopatra gave Julius Caesar a remedy of burnt domestic mice,
    horse teeth, bear fat and deer marrow.
    
    
  • American folklore holds that bald farmers can regain lost hair
    by having cattle lick their heads.
    
    
  • Horse saliva, dog urine and spider webs are all options
    that have been tried over the years.
    
    
    

Contemporary History

As a result of medical research:

1940s
Relationships observed between testosterone and hair;
first hair transplantation performed on patients

1980s
Hair culturing techniques developed; stem cells discovered

1990s
One hair-loss gene isolated