An outline of the achievements of American dermatology arranged in chronological order / Paul E. Bechet.

Bechet, Paul E. (Paul Esnard), 1881-

Date:: 1946

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JAMES CLARKE WHITE 1833-1916 First Professor of Dermatology in America (Harvard University, 1871). M. D. Harvard (1855). Post-graduate work under Hebra, Oppolzer, Skoda, Rokitansky (1856-1857). Founded first dispensary for skin diseases in Boston (1860). Lecturer on Diseases of the Skin, Harvard Medical School (1863). Chairman of the Section of Dermatology and Syphilology of the International Medical Congress (1876). Founder and first president of the American Derma¬ tological Association (1877). First to describe dermatitis venenata and contact dermatitis (1887). First to describe keratosis follicularis (Journal of Cutaneous and Genito-Urinary Diseases, June 1889) several months before Darier’s report. President of the Sixth International Dermatological Congress (1907). Between 1856 and 1913 contributed 125 medical papers, 50 reviews, 94 editorials and eight books.