Excerpt from The Scottish Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 9: July-December, 1901 The proportion of alopecia areata to all the cases coming to the Skin Department is roughly 5 per cent. There is a greater incidence in the male than in the female Of 207 consecutive cases, 122 were males and 85 females. With reference to age, most cases occur between the ages of 10 and 20. It was equally common between 20 and 30, and 30 and 45 over 45 the disease is rare. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.