Diseases of the skin : a manual for practitioners and students / by W. Allan Jamieson.

  • Jamieson, W. Allan (William Allan), 1839-1916.
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Diseases of the skin : a manual for practitioners and students / by W. Allan Jamieson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    LEEDS kwr.r. RIDING i£DIC0-Ch»ltt&CICAL SOCIETY PREFACE. In the kingdom of Nature there are periods daring which the continuity of evolution seems suspended, and rest reigns; and in the domain of Science there are similar epochs, when activity, alternating with comparative repose, prevails. For the last ten years the progress of Dermatology has been rapid, fresh discoveries as to the essence of Cutaneous Diseases and improved modes of treating them following closely on each other. But there are signs that the wave of advance has been, for the time, slackening; and I have taken advantage of the opportunity thus offered to gather up the disconnected threads and to present them in a concrete form, so far at least as they are related to the affections of the Skin endemic in the British Isles. While, therefore, this volume represents data and con- clusions drawn from individual experience, it at the same time is largely indebted to the observations of others. In so far as possible, references have been given to all the Authors quoted; but there are two names which recur so frequently, that some more special acknowledgment is de- manded with respect to them. Dermatology has gained so much on its clinical and philosophical side from the writings of Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson, and on its practical and thera-