Authors: John Thorne Crissey, Lawrence C. Parish, Karl Holubar
Arranged as an illustrated time-line, this volume features an exceptional range of historical plates such as 'Molluscum contagiosum', from Thomas Bateman's Delineations of Cutaneous Diseases, 1817, an 1869 painting of
ichthyosis hystrix by Carl Heitzmann, and early experiments in
ultraviolet therapy by Finsen and colleagues in 1903. The authors have selected individuals representative of each era, workers who dealt seriously with the
dermatologic concerns of the day, or who through their opinions or behavior project the color and ambience of the period in which they lived. They have included typical examples of the books, journals, instruments, and devices that made up the annals and…
