1942 DEGOS, Robert (1904 – 1987); ET AL

Dermatite papulo-squameuse atrophiante.

“Degos’s disease”, malignant atrophic papulosis. With J. Delort and R. Tricot. Earlier described by W. Köhlmeier, Frankf. Z. Path., 1940, 54, 413.

GMN 4154 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5871

1943 CHARPY, Jacques (1900 – 1957)

Technique de traitement du lupus tuberculeux.

Introduction of calciferol in the treatment of lupus. A more extensive report, “Le traitement des tuberculoses cutanées par la vitamine D2 à hautes doses”, appeared in the same journal, 1946, 8 sér., 6, 310-46.

GMN 4010 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5151

1944 SULZBERGER, Marion Baldur (1895 – 1983)

Penetration of allergens into the human skin.

Proof that allergens that produce urticarial reactions can penetrate the skin from external contact and thus produce the reaction that the authors named “contact urticaria.” With F. Herrmann and R. Baer.

GMN 2605.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3042

1945 DOWLING, Geoffrey Barrow (1891 – 1976); THOMAS, Ebenezer William Prosser

Lupus vulgaris treated with calciferol.

Dowling and Prosser Thomas introduced calciferol in the treatment of lupus independently of Charpy (no. 4010) whose work was unknown to them owing to the wartime isolation of France.

GMN 4011 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5163

1948 RONCHESE, Francesco (1892 – 1976)

Occupational marks and other physical signs. A guide to personal identification.

Calluses, other dermatological and physical signs of professions and occupations illustrated and described, with an annotated bibliography that includes some historical references.

GMN 2135.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2674

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 BECKER, Samuel William (1894 – 1964)

Concurrent melanosis and hypertrichosis in distribution of nevus unius lateris.

“Becker’s nevus”, pigmented hairy epidermal nevus.

GMN 4154.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5876

1949 LEVER, Walter F. (1909 – 1992)

Histopathology of the skin.

GMN 7316 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9486

1950 ZOON, Johannes Jacobus (1902 – 1958)

Balanitis circumscripta chronica met plasmacellen-infiltraat.

Zoon’s plasma cell balanitis.

GMN 4154.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5879

1951 WAARDENBURG, Petrus Johannes (1886 – 1979)

A new syndrome combining developmental anomalies of the eyelids, eyebrows and nose root with pigmentary defects of the iris and head hair with congenital deafness.

“Waardenburg’s syndrome”.

GMN 4154.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5883

1953 SHELLEY, Walter Brown (1917 – 2009); CRISSEY, John Thorne (1924 – 2009)

Classics in clinical dermatology. With biographical sketches.

Contains 143 classic descriptions of cutaneous diseases by 93 writers. Many portraits are also included.

GMN 4158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5930

1953 WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)

Serial propagation in vitro of agents producing inclusion bodies derived from varicella and herpes zoster.

Isolation of the varicella-herpes virus.

GMN 5440.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7466

1954 SCHÖNFELD, Walther Heinrich Paul (1888 – 1977)

Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.

GMN 4158.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5933

1957 PINKUS, Hermann (1905 – 1985)

Alopecia mucinosa. Inflammatory plaques with alopecia characterized by root-sheath mucinosis.

Follicular mucinosis.

GMN 4154.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5885

1958 GENTLES, James Clark (1921 – 1987)

Experimental ringworm in guinea pigs: oral treatment with griseofulvin.

Use of griseofulvin in the treatment of ringworm.

GMN 4011.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5165

1958 NETHERTON, Earl Weldon (1893 – 1967)

A unique case of trichorrhexis nodosa – “bamboo hairs”.

“Netherton’s syndrome”.

GMN 4154.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5903

1961 DENTON, James Fred (1914 – ); ET AL

Isolation of Blastomyces dermatitidis from soil.

With E.S. McDonough, L. Ajello and R.J. Ausherman.

GMN 4154.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5910

1963 HACKETT, Cecil John (1905 – 1995)

On the origin of the human treponematoses (pinta, yaws, endemic syphilis and venereal syphilis).

“Perhaps the most scholarly investigation of the origin of syphilis” (Wesley Spink).

GMN 5308.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6568

1963 GOLDMAN, Leon (1906 – 1997)

Effect of the laser beam on the skin.

One of the first papers on the application of lasers in medicine. In 1961 Goldman became the first researcher to use a laser to treat a human skin disease when he treated melanoma. The method later became popular in r…

GMN 6941 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9106

1965 WELLS, Robert Stuart; KERR, Charles Baldwin (1933 – )

Genetic classification of ichthyosis.

Sex-linked recessive ichthyosis shown to be an important but not uncommon entity. See also Kerr & Wells: Sex-linked ichthyosis. Ann. hum. Genet., 1965, 29, 33-50.

GMN 4154.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5916

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

1970 WAGNER, Gustav; MÜLLER, Wolfgang John (1913 – 1992)

Dermatologie in der Kunst.

GMN 13730 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16014

1977 ALLEN, Alfred M.; OGNIBENE, Andre J.; BARRETT, O'Neill Jr.

Medical Department, United States Army Internal medicine in Vietnam. Volume I. Skin diseases in Vietnam, 1965-72. Vol. II. General medicine and infectious diseases, edited by Andre J. Ognibene and O'Neill Barrett, Jr.

Digital facsimile of Vol. 1 from the Hathi Trust at this link. Vol. 2 is availabel from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History at this link.

GMN 9211 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11392

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

1981 CRISSEY, John Thorne (1924 – 2009); PARISH, Lawrence Charles

The dermatology and syphilology of the nineteenth century.

A scholarly work written in a particularly entertaining style.

GMN 4158.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5938

1986 AINSWORTH, Geoffrey Clough (1905 – 1998)

Introduction to the history of medical and veterinary mycology.

Authoritative and well-illustrated history with excellent chronological bibliography.

GMN 4158.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5942

1989 EHRING, Franz (1921 – 2005)

Hautkrankheiten. 5 Jahrhunderte wissenschaftlicher Illustration / Skin Diseases. 5 Centuries of Scientific Illustration.

Bilingual text, richly illustrated in color, on the great illustrated works in the history of dermatology.

GMN 6832 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8996

1992 WEEDON, David (1942 – )

Systemic pathology. / Volume 9, The Skin.

GMN 7326 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9497

1994 CHANG, Yuan (1959 – ); MOORE, Patrick S. (1956 – ); CESARMAN, Ethel; PESSIN, Melissa S.; ET AL

Identification of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma.

Dated December 16, 1994. Order of authorship in the original paper was Chang, Cesarman, Pessin,...Moore. The authors reported a new human herpesvirus associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, and gave it the descriptive name …

GMN 10880 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13076

1995 CHANG, Yuan (1959 – ); MOORE, Patrick S. (1956 – )

Detection of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in Kaposi's sarcoma in patients with and those without HIV infection.

Dated May 4, 1995. Order of authorship in the original publication was Moore, Chang. That the virus causing Kaposi's sarcoma appeared in healthy as well as HIV patients suggested that this virus causes cancer only in …

GMN 10881 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13077

1996 BIGONI, B.; DOLCETTI, Riccardo; DE LELLIS, L.; ET AL

Human herpesvirus 8 Is present in the lymphoid system of healthy persons and can reactivate in the course of AIDS.

Dated June 22, 1995. Order of authorship in the original paper was Bigoni, Dolcetti, de Lellis....By this time Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) was also known as human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8). The authors wr…

GMN 10882 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13078

1998 CERRONI, Lorenzo (1959 – ); KERL, Helmut; GATTER, Kevin

An illustrated guide to skin lymphoma.

GMN 7322 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9492

1998 ACKERMAN, Albert Bernard (1936 – 2006); WEYERS, Wolfgang (1958 – )

Death of medicine in Nazi Germany: Dermatology under the Swastika. Edited by A. Bernard Ackerman.

GMN 8785 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10963

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

2002 CRISSEY, John Thorne (1924 – 2009); PARISH, Lawrence Charles; HOLUBAR, Karl (1936 – 2013)

Historical atlas and dermatology and dermatologists.

GMN 7471 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9643

2002 TILLES, Gérard; WALLACH, Daniel

La dermatologie en France. Edited by Daniel Wallach and Gérard Tilles

"Realisé à l'initiative de la Société française d'histoire de la dermatologie. Rédigé par 76 auteurs représentant la communauté dermatologique française, cet ouvrage constitue le cadeau officiel du vingtième Congrès m…

GMN 14109 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16420

2003 SPERLING, Leonard C.

An atlas of hair pathology—with clinical correlations.

GMN 7323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9493

2003 ROWLEY, Mark

ArtandMedicine.com.

http://www.artandmedicine.com/Index.html A highly personal but in all aspects extraordinary website/blog on the history of medical photography in the form of what Rowley calls his Cabinet Journal.

GMN 10244 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12434

2004 CONNOR, Steven (1955 – )

The book of skin.

GMN 7109 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9276

2008 LÖSER, Christoph; PLEWIG, Gerd (1939 – )

Pantheon der Dermatologie. Herausragende historische Persönlichkeiten.

Probably the largest and most comprehensive history of a medical specialty published in the 21st century. Expanded and revised English translation: Pantheon of Dermatology: outstanding historical figures by Löser, Ple…

GMN 7266 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9436

2009 KELLY, Arthur Paul (1938 – 2014); TAYLOR, Susan C.

Dermatology for skin of color.

"... the first comprehensive reference for this subspecialty, ranging from the historic and cultural to the clinical and basic science components....More than 600 full-color photographs of preoperative and postoperati…

GMN 13029 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15279

2013 SCHOLZ, Albrecht (1940 – 2013)

Geschichte der Dermatologie in Deutschland.

GMN 12580 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14819

2013 REINARZ, Jonathan; SIENA, Kevin

A medical history of skin: Scratching the surface. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Kevin Siena.

GMN 13691 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15973

2020 HAMBLIN, James Richard (1982 – )

Clean: The new science of skin.

"A preventative medicine physician and staff writer for The Atlantic explains the surprising and unintended effects of our hygiene practices in this informative and entertaining introduction to the new science of skin…

GMN 13039 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15289