1907 PINKUS, Felix (1868 – 1947)

Ueber eine neue knötchenförmige Hauteruption; Lichen nitidus.

Original description of lichen nitidus, “Pinkus’s disease”. Pinkus first showed a case before the Berlin Dermatological Society on 3 Dec, 1901, and named it “lichen nitidus”.

GMN 4143 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5803

1908 DANLOS, Henri-Alexandre (1844 – 1912)

Un cas de cutis laxa avec tumeurs par contusion chronique des coudes et des genoux.

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (see also No. 4132). Danlos noted the subcutaneous tumors that may occur in this condition.

GMN 4144 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5806

1908 LEINER, Karl (1871 – 1930)

Ueber Erythrodermia desquamativa, eine eigenartige universelle Dermatose der Brustkinder.

Desquamative erythroderma of nurslings (Leiner); apparently a toxic eruption peculiar to breast-fed children suffering from enteritis.

GMN 4145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5809

1909 DARIER, Ferdinand-Jean (1856 – 1938)

Précis de dermatologie.

GMN 4005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5103

1909 HEERFORDT, Christian Frederik (1872 – 1953)

Ueber eine “Febris uveo-parotidea subchronica”, an der Glandula parotis und der Uvea des Auges lokalisiert und häufig mit Paresen cerebrospinaler Nerven kompliziert

“Heerfordt’s syndrome”, uveo-parotid fever, a form of sarcoidosis.

GMN 4145.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5816

1909 LINDENBERG, Adolfo Carlos (1872 – 1944)

L’ulcère de Bauru ou le bouton d’orientau Brésil.

Muco-cutaneous leishmaniasis of South America. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).

GMN 5299.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6483

1909 GOUGEROT, Henri (1881 – 1955); CARAVEN, Pierre Jean Baptiste (1879 – 1958)

Mycose nouvelle: l’hémisporose. Ostéite humaine primitive du tibia due à l’Hemispora Stellata.

Hemisporosis described.

GMN 5535 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6694

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

1911 –1912 LOMBARD, Warren Plimpton (1855 – 1939)

The blood-vessels in the arterioles, capillaries and small veins of the human skin.

Lombard soaked the skin in cedarwood oil, rendering transparent the superficial epidermal layers, and thus making possible many direct observations on it.

GMN 790 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/108

1911 QUEYRAT, Louis Auguste (1856 – 1933)

Érythroplasia du gland.

Erythroplasia of Queyrat, a condition similar to the precancerous dermatosis described by Bowen (No. 4148).

GMN 4146 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5820

1912 BEURMANN, Charles Lucien de (1851 – 1923); GOUGEROT, Henri (1881 – 1955)

Les sporotrichoses.

First complete description of sporotrichosis (“de Beurmann–Gougerot disease”).

GMN 4147 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5830

1912 BOWEN, John Templeton (1857 – 1940)

Precancerous dermatosis. A study of two cases of chronic atypical epithelial proliferation.

Bowen, a Boston dermatologist, first described a precancerous dermatosis (“Bowen’s disease”), which is now considered to be a variant of an intra-epidermal basal cell epithelioma.

GMN 4148 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5835

1914 VIANNA, Gaspar Oliviera (1885 – 1914)

Sobre o tratemento de leishmaniose tegumentar.

Vianna introduced tartar emetic in the treatment of S. American leishmaniasis. His preliminary announcement on this form of treatment was made to the Brazilian Dermatological Society and appears in Arch. brasil. Med.,…

GMN 5301 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6525

1914 SCHOTTMÜLLER, Hugo (1867 – 1936)

Zurt Aetiologie und Klinik der Bisskrankheit.

Isolation of Streptothrix (Actinomyces) muris ratti from human patients bitten by rats.

GMN 5325 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6627

1914 MAGROU, Joseph Émile (1883 – 1951)

Les grains botryomycotiques. Leur signification en pathologie et en biologie générales.

Thèse de Paris, No. 267, 1914. Magrou showed botriomycosis (granuloma pyogenicum) to be due to a staphylococcus.

GMN 5536 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6699

1915 GILCHRIST, Thomas Caspar (1862 – 1927)

Outline of common skin diseases including eruptive fevers. Also diet plans for children in use in the Department of Pediatrics, the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Gilchrist was the first professor to concentrate on dermatology at Johns Hopkins, joining the faculty in 1898. His guide to the common skin diseases, published for the use of medical students at Hopkins, was printed l…

GMN 11753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13953

1917 SCHAUMANN, Jörgen Nilsen (1879 – 1953)

Étude sur le lupus pernio et ses rapports avec les sarcoïdes et la tuberculose.

“Besnier–Boeck–Schaumann disease” (see also Nos. 4095, 4128). Through Schaumann’s paper the systemic nature of sarcoidosis came to be recognized.

GMN 4149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5839

1919 HOFFMANN, Erich (1868 – 1959)

Ueber eine nach innen gerichtete Schützfunktion der Haut (Esophylaxie) nebst Bemerkungen über die Entstehung der Paralyse.

Hoffmann stressed the role of the skin as a secretory organ, producing hormone-like substances; he suggested the term “esophylaxis” for this function.

GMN 1477 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2456

1919 MITSUDA, Kensuke (1876 – 1964)

On the value of a skin reaction to a suspension of leprous nodules.

Mitsuda (lepromin) reaction. English translation by the author in Int. J. Leprosy, 1953, 21, 347-58.

GMN 2440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2914

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

1921 LIPSCHÜTZ, Benjamin (1878 – 1931)

Untersuchungen über die Ätiologie der Krankheiten der Herpesgruppe (Herpes zoster, Herpes genitalis, Herpes febrilis).

Lipschütz’s account of herpes virus diseases included identification of the characteristic inclusion bodies (“Zosterkörperchen”).

GMN 2521.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3300

1922 STEVENS, Albert Mason (1884 – 1945); JOHNSON, Frank Chambliss (1894 – 1934)

A new eruptive fever associated with stomatitis and ophthalmia; report of two cases in children.

“Stevens-Johnson syndrome”, a generalized eruption, continued fever, inflamed buccal mucosa, and severe purulent conjunctivitis. B.A. Thomas (Brit. med. J., 1950, 1, 1393) believes this to be merely a severe form of H…

GMN 4150 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5844

1923 TREVES, Sir Frederick (1853 – 1923)

The elephant man and other reminiscences.

The story of Treves's patient, Joseph Carey Merrick (1862-1890), incorrected identified by Treves in these reminiscences as "John Merrick." The story was retold in The elephant man, Bernard Pomerance's 1977 play about…

GMN 7407 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9579

1924 ASCHOFF, Karl Albert Ludwig (1866 – 1942)

Das reticulo-endotheliale System.

In an earlier paper on this subject (Münch, med. Wschr., 1922, 69, 1352-56) Aschoff introduced the term “reticulo-endothelial system”; as early as 1914 he grouped certain phagocytic cells into his system.

GMN 562 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/290

1924 LEWIS, Sir Thomas (1881 – 1945); GRANT, Ronald Thomson (1892 – 1989)

Vascular reactions of the skin to injury. II. The liberation of a histamine-like substance in injured skin; the underlying cause of factitious urticaria and of wheals produced by burning; and observations upon the nervous control of certain skin reactions.

Lewis postulated that a histamine-like substance (“H-substance”) was responsible for the anaphylaxis symptom-complex. See also The blood-vessels of the human skin and their responses, 1927 (No. 797).

GMN 2602 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3024

1925 KUNDRATITZ, Karl (1889 – 1975)

Experimentelle Übertragung von Herpes zoster auf den Menschen und die Beziehungen von Herpes zoster zu Varicellen.

First demonstration of the infectivity of herpes.

GMN 4652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/753

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

1925 MENDES DA COSTA, Samuel (1862 – 1943)

Erythro- et keratodermia variabilis in a mother and daughter.

“Mendes Da Costa’s syndrome” – erythrokeratoderma variabilis.

GMN 4150.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5846

1925 WEBER, Frederick Parkes (1863 – 1962)

A case of relapsing non-suppurative nodular panniculitis, showing phagocytosis of subcutaneous fat-cells by macrophages.

Weber–Christian disease (see No. 4152).

GMN 4151 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5851

1926 ABRIKOSOV, Aleksi Ivanovitch (1875 – 1955)

Über Myome, ausgehend von der quergestreiften willkürlichen Muskulatur.

“Abrikosov’s tumor”, granular-cell myoblastoma.

GMN 4151.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5853

1926 SENEAR, Francis Eugene (1889 – 1958); USHER, Barney David (1899 – 1978)

An unusual type of pemphigus, combining features of lupus erythematosus.

Pemphigus erythematodes. “Senear–Usher syndrome”.

GMN 4151.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5857

1927 LEWIS, Sir Thomas (1881 – 1945)

The blood-vessels of the human skin and their responses.

GMN 797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/136

1927 REGAUD, Claudius (1870 – 1940); FERROUX, R.

Discordance des effets des rayons X, d’une part dans la peau, d’autre part dans le testicule, par le fractionnement de la dose: diminution de l’efficacité dans la peau, maintien de l’efficacité dans le testicule.

Dose fractionation.

GMN 2008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1935

1927 –1937 JADASSOHN, Josef (1863 – 1936)

Handbuch der Haut-und Geschlechtskrankheiten. Hrsg…von J. JADASSOHN. 24 vols.

GMN 4006 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5110

1928 CHRISTIAN, Henry Asbury (1876 – 1951)

Relapsing febrile nodular nonsuppurative panniculitis.

See No. 4151.

GMN 4152 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5860

1928 RICHTER, Paul Caesar (1865 – 1938); FICK, Johannes von (1848 – 1922); SPITZER, Rudolf

Geschichte der Dermatologie, geographische Verteilung der hautkrankheiten Nomenklatur. (Handbuch der Haut- und Geschlechtskrankheiten, Bd. 14, 2. T.)

GMN 4155 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5921

1930 SULZBERGER, Marion Baldur (1895 – 1983)

Arsphenamine hypersensitiveness in guinea pigs. II. Experiments demonstrating the role of the skin, both as originator and as site of the hypersensitiveness.

Sulzberger showed that allergens gaining access to the epidermis are processed there in some manner (Langerhans cells?) that determines their allergenicity. See No. 2576.02

GMN 2603.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3033

1931 STICKER, Georg (1860 – 1960); JADASSOHN, Josef (1863 – 1936)

Entwurf einer Geschichte der ansteckenden Geschlechtskrankheiten.

GMN 5227.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7849

1933 FOERSTER, Otfrid (1873 – 1941)

The dermatomes in man.

GMN 1377.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1781

1933 CHAOUL, Henri (1887 – 1964); ADAM, Albert

Die Röntgen-Nahbestrahlung maligner Tumoren.

Chaoul therapy.

GMN 4007 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5114

1933 COCKAYNE, Edward Alfred (1880 – 1956)

Inherited abnormalities of the skin and its appendages.

GMN 4008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5136

1933 PUSEY, William Allen (1865 – 1940)

The history of dermatology.

Reprinted, New York, 1976.

GMN 4156 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5926

1934 SULZBERGER, Marion Baldur (1895 – 1983)

Experiments in silk hypersensitivity and the inhalation of allergen in atopic dermatitis (neurodermatitis disseminatus).

Proof that inhaled allergens can reach the skin in a quantity and quality capable of eliciting urticarial reactions. With W.T. Vaughn. Coca and Sulzberger coined the term, “atopic dermatitis.”

GMN 2605.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3041

1936 DARIER, Ferdinand-Jean (1856 – 1938); ET AL

Nouvelle pratique dermatologique. 8 vols.

GMN 4009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5142

1936 SÉZARY, Albert (1880 – 1956); LEVY-COBLENTZ, G.; CHAUVILLON, P.

Dermographisme et mastocytose.

Sézary and colleagues first reported systemic mastocytosis.

GMN 14173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16488

1937 ROLLESTON, John Davy (1873 – 1946)

The history of the acute exanthemata.

Smallpox, chicken pox, scarlet fever, measles and German measles. Rolleston was the brother of Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston.

GMN 8751 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10929

1938 SAENZ RICART, Braulio (1886 – 1961)

Demonstratión de un treponema en el borde activo un caso de pinto de las manos y pies y en la linfa de ganglios superficiales (reporte preliminar).

B. Saenz, J. Grau Triana, and J. Alfonso Armenteros indicated that pinta is caused by a treponeme, T. carateum.

GMN 5308.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6564

1939 HAILEY, William Howard (1898 – 1967); HAILEY, Hugh Edward (1909 – 1963)

Familial benign chronic pemphigus.

“Hailey–Hailey disease”, earlier described by H. Gougerot, Arch. derm. – syph. Clin. St Louis, 1933, 5, 255-57.

GMN 4152.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5864

1941 KVEIM, Morten Ansgar (1892 – 1966)

En ny og spesifikk kutan-reaksjon ved Boecks sarcoid. En foreløbig meddelelse.

Kveim’s test for sarcoidosis.

GMN 4153 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5868

1942 KLEMPERER, Paul (1887 – 1964); ET AL

Diffuse collagen disease; acute disseminated lupus erythematosus and diffuse scleroderma.

P. Klemperer, A. D. Pollack, and G. Baehr combined a number of diseases, hitherto regarded as unrelated, into an entity which they termed diffuse collagen disease.

GMN 2237 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3809