Around the Web – Some of the Craziest Baldness Cures in History

Snippet from the article:

When your hairline starts to retreat, you’ll do whatever it takes to keep your head from turning into a volleyball. If Rogaine fails you, there are always these quack remedies from the past.

1. Ancient Egypt
According to The Ebers Papyrus (a medical script from c. 1550 BCE), mix the fat of a hippo with some crocodile, tomcat, snake, and ibex fat. If that fails, boil porcupine hair and apply it to your scalp for four days.

2. Ancient Greece
Hippocrates swore by a mixture of opium, horseradish, pigeon droppings, beetroot, and spices. If that’s not your cup of tea, stick to Aristotle’s method—goat urine.

Read the rest at Mental Floss — 14 of History’s Craziest Baldness Cures

There are some really nutty “cures” that have obviously not worked, and this list of 14 is pretty wild. I guess people were eager (or at least willing) to smear various animals’ fecal matter on their heads in order to regrow hair.