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This second edition of the popular Classics in Clinical Dermatology with Biographical Sketches, first published in 1953, has been expanded considerably. Compiled and edited by two of the most acknowledged figures in dermatology over the past half-century, this new edition contains the complete contents of the first edition - 95 authors, from 21 countries, and the world literature of the preceding 150 years - plus about 30 new classic papers that have appeared in the past 50 years. The diseases depicted vary from daily clinical fare to the rarest of the rare. Some are case reports, while...

This superbly illustrated and fascinating history sheds new light on t he emergence of dermatology as a separate medical specialty and on som e of the key players who have contributed to its development. Ranging from the early Egyptian period to the present day, it offers a unique insight to dermatologists about their past and about the influences th at led to present practice. The volume features an exceptional range o f illustrations with historical plates such as 'Molluscum contagiosum', from Thomas Bateman's Delineations of Cutaneous Diseases, 1817, an 1 869 painting of ichthyosis hystrix...