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The article discusses the history of superstition with a focus on the Han dynasty in China. The identification of 'superstition' as a target of demonstration of authority in visible and invisible worlds is highlighted.

Reading Besieged in Peking: The Story of the 1900 Boxer Rising, by Diana Preston (London: Constable, 1999; pp. xiv + 322. 20 £), one cannot help but be reminded of [...]

We present a series of 13 patients with clinical and histological features of both folliculitis decalvans (FD) and lichen planopilaris (LPP), either concomitantly, or sequentially as the clinical phenotype changed over time. This biphasic presentation of FD-LPP is not as uncommon as would be expected from the lack of description in the literature. We discuss current theories about the pathogenesis of both LPP and FD, and speculate how abnormal immune responses may either predispose to secondary bacterial infection or be influenced by dysbiosis of the skin/hair follicle microbiome, resulting in inflammation and permanent hair follicle damage., (© 2019 British Association of Dermatologists.)