Sajous's analytical cyclopædia of practical medicine . Alopecia totalis following: an ordinary alopeciaareata. {Schamberg.) a certain size, when they remain sta-tionary. In some cases the entire scalpbecomes denuded of hair, giving tothe patient a most grotesque appear-ance. In extensive cases it is by nomeans rare for the eyebrows and eye-lashes to be lost. In men the beardedregion of the face may be involved,either alone or in conjunction withthe scalp. The duration of the disease varies 552 ALOPECIA AREATA (SCHAMBERG). greatly. Recovery seldom occurs inless than a few months, while manycase
Sajous's analytical cyclopædia of practical medicine . Alopecia totalis following: an ordinary alopeciaareata. {Schamberg.) a certain size, when they remain sta-tionary. In some cases the entire scalpbecomes denuded of hair, giving tothe patient a most grotesque appear-ance. In extensive cases it is by nomeans rare for the eyebrows and eye-lashes to be lost. In men the beardedregion of the face may be involved,either alone or in conjunction withthe scalp. The duration of the disease varies 552 ALOPECIA AREATA (SCHAMBERG). greatly. Recovery seldom occurs inless than a few months, while manycases last several years. The diseasemay occur at any period of life. Inyoung individuals the hair usuallyreturns sooner or later. In adults,the baldness may persist and proverefractory to all treatment. When regrowth occurs, the patchis first covered by fine, downy, whitish. Alopecia areata. Schamberg. hairs which are either shed or laterconverted into coarse and pigmentedhairs. Not infrequently the hairgrows in and the patient thinks he ison the road to recovery, only to havehis hopes shattered by the hair fallingout again. As a rule, there are no sub-ijective symptoms to be observed insuch cases. Alopecia areata occurs with similarfrequency in the two sexes. It ismore common in youth and earlyadult life than in other age periods. Crocker states that, of 506 hospitalcases, 214 were under 15 years of age,and 214 occurred in persons betweenthe age of 15 and 35. ETIOLOGY.—There are two dis-tinct theories of the causation ofalopecia areata. One school insiststhat the disease is parasitic, and citesoccurrences of epidemics in institu-tions as proof of this view. Epi-demics have been observed chiefly inFrance and Germany: Cowen andPutnam have also published the detailsof an outbreak in an institution in thiscountry. The cause of alopecia areata is notan infe
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