The term comes originally from Latin: Favus = honeycomb When one looks at a famous picture in Dr Hebra’s textbook, one understands the comparison of the term with ease. The fungus causing the affection is called Trichophyton schönleinii, which refers to Dr Johann Lucas Schönlein (1793-1864) who worked at la Charité hospital in Berlin, Germany.…
The Greek and Latin words of origin are: μυξοσ = muxos = mucosité – latin : mucos οιδεμα = oidema = swelling The first term in Greek is not universally used anymore. The latin translation of the Greek word is “mucos”. The terms translated into Latin from Greek are sometimes confusing: it is probably the…
Dr Ferdinand Jean Darier (1856-1938) was born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied medicine in Geneva, Switzerland and Paris. He worked with Drs Ernest Besnier et Alfred Fournier and sub-specialized in dermatopathology. Darier is considered as the father of modern dermatology in France and wrote a dermatology textbook “Précis de Dermatologie” (edited 4 times). He also…
The term comes from Greek: βoυβớν = boubon = swelling of the inguinal glande In other words it is an adenopathy of inguinal lymph mode – also called bubon. Today the term is less and less used probably because Hippocrates (of Kos) described it for thé plague, which was prevalent in Ancient Times. The bubo…
Adenoma Sebaceum refers to lesions on the face described in 1890 by the British dermatologist Dr John James Pringle (1855-1922). Adenoma Sebaceum is a misnomer, the lesions are actually angiofibromas – which is closer to Koenen’s tumors which are peringual fibromas. The facial lesions are neither adenomas, nor sebaceous in origin. Multiple “real” sebacous adenomas…
