RT Journal
T1 The skin diseases: A manual for practitioners and students
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD April 23
VO 139
IS 17
SP 1236
OP 1236
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900340112034
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900340112034
AB Designed, according to the author, as a companion to his manual "The Venereal Diseases" and as a book to appeal to the general practitioner, the text is brief, details and descriptions difficult to apply or to interpret by the occasional user have been omitted and concise essays are presented descriptive of the salient features of diagnosis and therapy of dermatoses most likely to be met. The author has sought "to provide a guide to procedure which will tempt some to try their hands in the treatment of skin diseases which are all too often considered only a waste of time in general practice." "Dermatology is as yet an art rather than a science... " "It is a good rule to use only the mildest and blandest remedies appropriate... " "Radiotherapy should be prescribed and administered only by those expert in the subject... "Illustrations are on the whole good and typical. Little