TY  - JOUR
T1  - The skin diseases: A manual for practitioners and students
Y1  - 1949/04/23
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1949.02900340112034
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1236
EP  - 1236
VL  - 139
IS  - 17
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02900340112034
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900340112034
ER  -