1759 ASTRUC, Jean (1684 – 1766)
Traité de tumeurs et des ulcères, où l'on a tâché de joindre à une théorie solide, la pratique la plus sûre et la mieux éprouvée ; avec deux lettres : I. Sur la composition de remèdes dont on vante l'utilité et dont on cache la préparation : II. Sur la nature et le succès des nouveaux remèdes qu'on propose pour la guérison des maladies vénériennes. 2 vols.
The earliest French work on dermatology, and one of the earliest works in dermatopathology, including tumors of the skin. Digital facsimile of the 1768 second edition from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11137 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13333
1792 JACKSON, Seguin Henry (1750 – 1816)
Dermato-pathologia; or practical observations, from some new thoughts on the pathology and proximate cause of diseases of the true skin.
An attempt to classify skin diseases upon the basis of their pathology.
GMN 3984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4989
1838 HENLE, Friedrich Gustav Jakob (1809 – 1885)
Ueber die Ausbreitung des Epithelium im menschlichen Korper.
Henle broadened the scope of his study of epithelium (No. 539) to include the covering layers of the true body cavities.
GMN 540 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/272
1841 WILLIS, Robert (1799 – 1878)
Illustrations of cutaneous disease: A series of delineations of the affections of the skin in their more interesting and frequent forms.
Large folio, with 94 hand-colored lithographed plates by Archibald Henning (1805-64).
GMN 7478 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9650
1845 HEBRA, Ferdinand Karl Franz Schwarzmann, Ritter von (1816 – 1880)
Versuch einer auf pathologische Anatomie gegründeten Eintheilung der Hautkrankheiten.
Hebra’s classification of skin diseases was based upon their pathological anatomy.
GMN 3991 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5026
1848 SIMON, Gustav (1824 – 1876)
Die Hautkrankheiten durch anatomische Untersuchungen erläutert.
The first textbook of dermatopathology. "Simon dated the preface of his book April 1st, 1848 and wrote (p. vi and vii) that much has been achieved by meticulous clinical description of diseases of the skin but now att…
GMN 7314 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9484
1848 BÄRENSPRUNG, Friedrich Wilhelm Felix von (1822 – 1864)
Beiträge zur Anatomie und Pathologie der menschlichen Haut.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 7318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9488
1876 BELL, Joseph (1837 – 1911)
Paraffin epithelioma of the scrotum.
Shale oil shown to be a cause of skin cancer. A teacher of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bell was the model for the character of Sherlock Holmes.
GMN 2127.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2657
1880 KAPOSI, Moritz Kohn (1837 – 1902)
Pathologie und Therapie der Hautkrankheiten.
English translation by J. C. Johnston in 1895.
GMN 3995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5050
1891 MORAU, Henri (1860 – )
Inoculation en série d’une tumeur épithéliale de la souris blanche.
In 1889 Morau transferred epitheliomata in mice and by 1893 had carried his experiments through 17 generations, the first systematic survey of tumor-host relationships from a purely biological viewpoint.
GMN 2622.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3159
1894 UNNA, Paul Gerson (1850 – 1929)
Die Histopathologie der Hautkrankheiten.
This monumental work is a landmark in dermatological history. Sir Norman Walker translated it into English in 1896. Unna, short in stature but a giant among dermatologists, initiated the study of the skin by means of …
GMN 4000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5072
1898 FABRE-DOMERGUE, Paul-Louis (1861 – 1940)
Les cancers épithéliaux. Histologie - Histogenèse - Etiologie - Applications thérapeutiques.
GMN 11152 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13349
1903 MACLEOD, John MacLeod Hendrie (1870 – 1954)
Practical handbook of the pathology of the skin. An introduction to the histology, pathology, and bacteriology of the skin, with special reference to technique.
The first textbook on dermatopathology in English. Digital facsimile from Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7315 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9485
1905 –1906 TYZZER, Ernest Edward (1875 – 1965)
The histology of the skin lesions in varicella.
Tyzzer was first to recognize inclusion bodies in varicella.
GMN 5440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7464
1910 UNNA, Paul Gerson (1850 – 1929)
Histotechnik der leprösen Haut.
Unna was among the first to maintain that the lymphatics were involved in leprosy and that it was curable.
GMN 2439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2911
1920 BRODERS, Albert Compton (1885 – 1964)
Squamous-cell epithelioma of the lip. A study of five hundred and thirty-seven cases.
Broders’s classification of tumors, an index of malignancy.
GMN 2645 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3279
1925 DAWSON, James Walker (1870 – 1927)
The melanomata, their morphology and histogenesis. A study of cell origins and transformations, with a critical discussion on aspects of tumour growth, and a clinical review.
The first exhaustive monograph on the pathology of melanoma. Also issued as a separate monograph (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1925).
GMN 2649 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3299
1948 SPITZ, Sophie (1910 – 1956)
Melanomas of childhood.
Spitz first defined the histologic criteria for the diagnosis of juvenile melanoma.
GMN 4154.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5874
1949 LEVER, Walter F. (1909 – 1992)
Histopathology of the skin.
GMN 7316 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9486
1970 BRESLOW, Alexander (1928 – 1980)
Thickness, cross-sectional areas and depth of invasion in the prognosis of cutaneous melanoma.
Classic paper on the prognosis of melanoma. Digital facsimile available from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 7325 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9496
1978 ACKERMAN, Albert Bernard (1936 – 2006)
Histologic diagnosis of inflammatory skin diseases: A method by pattern analysis.
GMN 7317 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9487
1978 MOHS, Frederick Edward (1910 – 2002)
Chemosurgery: Microscopically controlled surgery for skin cancer.
Mohs surgery for common types of skin cancer.
GMN 11440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13639
1979 BEUTNER, Ernest H. (1923 – 2013); CHORZELSKI, Tadeusz P. (1928 – 1999); BEAN, Samuel F.
Immunopathology of the skin.
A classic on immunofluorescence of the skin.
GMN 7324 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9495
1992 WEEDON, David (1942 – )
Systemic pathology. / Volume 9, The Skin.
GMN 7326 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9497
1998 CERRONI, Lorenzo (1959 – ); KERL, Helmut; GATTER, Kevin
An illustrated guide to skin lymphoma.
GMN 7322 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9492
2001 –2013 DHOM, Georg (1922 – 2014)
Geschichte der Histopathologie. 2 vols.
Traces development of microscopy in disease research and diagnostics, as applied in surgical, gynecological, and dermatologic pathology in the 19th and 20th centuries.
GMN 8477 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10654
2003 SPERLING, Leonard C.
An atlas of hair pathology—with clinical correlations.
GMN 7323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9493
