Crinisic Unguent.
Take Bees burnt, Mouse dung, each half an ounce; Balsam of Peru 2 drams; Honey as much as sufficient. Make an Unguent.
The fore-part of the Head only is liable to be bald, faith Aristotle: The reason given is, because, between the Cutis and Cranium, in the Sinciput, there are found no Muscles or Fat, as there are in the Occiput; and so the Cutis there becoming dry, and, as it were, testaceous, the Hair falls off.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710