Piebaldism: rare but all dermatologists have heard this strange term during residency
- The cause of scabies was unknown and in the early decades of the 19th century, the mite being the cause of scabies were controversial.
- Simon François Renucci a Corsican medical student had seen native women remove mites from people with “the itch”; it amused him to see the professors of Paris in the dark.
- In 1834, at l’hôpital St. Louis, he demonstrated the existence of mite by inserting a needle and extracting it out of the burrows of a man with scabies. A few years later, in Austria, Dr Ferdinand Hebra auto-inoculated the mite and further showed this !
- To read more about scabies: http://www.globale-dermatologie.com/en/la-gale.html#.VEpVV-fbw4Y
Contributors
Dr Christophe Hsu – dermatologist. Geneva, Switzerland
Source of information:
-Crissey JT el al. Dermatology and Dermatologists (2002). Parthenon Publishing
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