The use of steroids in dermatology was initiated by two American New-York based dermatologists: Drs Marion Sulzberger and Victor Witten. Oral steroids: results of orally administered cortisone acetate were published in the Archives of Dermatology (now JAMA Dermatology) in 1951 and served the following purposes: “1. to get over the hump for an inflammatory dermatosis”…
Teeth deformities in congenital syphilis ? Yes, Hutchinson’s as well as the triad of signs he considered pathognomic: notched teeth, 8th nerve deafness, interstitial keratitis. Lentigo Maligna ? Yes, called Hutchinson’s melanotic freckle (HMF) by Australian dermatologists. A sign of nail melanoma ? Yes, called Hutchinson’s sign (when pigment is present on the proximal nail…
France was where a lot of the building of modern dermatology was made. Baron JL Alibert was of high importance in the development of education in dermatology. 3 times a week he conducted rounds in what was to become the first great dermatologic teaching centre: Hopital Saint-Louis. Reminiscent of the fundamental role of the hospital…
Leprosy was an important health problem in Norway and in the mid 19th century a center for the study and care of leprosy patients was built in the outskirts of Bergen (called the Pleiestiftelsen). It was built by Dr Daniel Cornelius Danielsen (1815-1894), the founder of leprosy research – he described crusted scabies – also…
Fox-Fordyce disease is also known as apocrine miliaria: It appears as papules in apocrine gland bearing areas such as the axillae, the pubic areas and around the areolae. It is due to a chronic obstruction of the apocrine glands It was described by Dr George Henry Fox (1846-1937), an American dermatologist from New York Dr…
This syndrome is also called Gougerot-Carteaud and was described in 1927 by two French dermatologists: Drs Gougerot and Carteaud. Dr Henri Gougerot (1881-1955) also described: the Gougerot-Houwer-Sjogrens syndrome also simply known as Sjorgren’s syndrome the Gougerot-Reiter syndrome also simply known as Reiter’s syndrome. pigmented purpuric lichenoid dermatoses of Gougerot and Blum Dr Gougerot was an…
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome was described by 2 physicians together: the French dermatologist Dr Henri-Alexandre Danlos (1844-1912). He was at the Hôpital St-Louis in Paris and was a pioneer in the use of radium in systemic lupus erythematosus and skin lesions of tuberculosis. the Danish dermatologist Dr Edvard Ehlers (1862-1937). He trained in Breslau, Berlin, Vienna and…
