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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

PLUMBE, Samuel (1795 – 1837)

1795 – 1837

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1824

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A practical treatise on the diseases of the skin, comprehending an account of such facts as have been recorded on these subjects, with original observations. The whole arranged with a view to illustrate the constitutional causes of these diseases, as well as their local characters.

PLUMBE, Samuel (1795 – 1837)

Plumbe was one of the most outspoken critics of Willan and Bateman’s morphological system of skin disease classification. In his Practical Treatise he was the first dermatologist to attempt to produce a classification…