Hot comb alopecia was first reported in the late 1960s as a scarring alopecia seen in black women who straightened their hair with hot combs for cosmetic purposes, developing characteristically on the crown and spreading peripherally to form a large oval area of partial hair loss.
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“They come like sacrifices in their trim,
And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war
All hot and bleeding will we offer them.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Soldier, scholar, horseman, he,
As ‘twere all life’s epitome.
What made us dream that he could comb grey hair?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)