RT Journal
T1 THe history of dermatology.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1933
FD May 13
VO 100
IS 19
SP 1559
OP 1559
DO 10.1001/jama.1933.02740190085034
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1933.02740190085034
AB This apparently is the first competent history of dermatology in English. It is brief but accurate and, certainly from the point of view of literary performance, most competent. One notes an error in the quotation which follows the introductory page; namely, James Henry Robinson instead of James Harvey Robinson.In the introduction, Dr. Pusey considers first early references to dermatology in the writings of the Edwin Smith papyrus and the Ebers papyrus, turning then to the development of Greek and Roman medicine. There is a list of the diseases of the skin referred to by these important writers. Then comes the first chapter, dealing with the early account of dermatology from Egypt to Greece. Here the points raised in the introductory chapter are expanded with actual references to the writings of the ancients and with some reference to the difficulty of interpreting the writings of the past by the knowledge