Photographic Illustrations of Skin Diseases.

Fox, George Henry

Erscheinungsdatum: 1881

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New York, E.B. Trat, No.757 Broadway, 1881, 4°, 102 pp., "Forthy-eight Plates from Life. Colored by Hand", Halbledereinband der Zeit; Rücken erneuert. First edition, third issue! George Henry Fox (1846-1937) was professor of dermatology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and consulting dermatologist to the Board of Health in the same city. As was customary in his day, he traveled as a young man to Europe for further training, and studied with Virchow in Berlin, Bazin, Hardy and Vidal in Paris, Tilbury Fox and Jonathan Hutchinson in London and notably with Hebra in Vienna. He has made many contributions, particularly to symptomology, is one of the founders of the American Dermatological Association. This important atlas of skin diseases is his major work. His first atlas "Photographic illustration of skin diseases" ((1879)1880) has 48 plates. According to Dann this was the first dermatological work to make use of a duplicating technique known as heliography or photo-engraving which was invented in 1878. He is known eponymously for "Fox-Fordyce diseases", describing a papular itchy eruption, confined to the axillae, nipples and pubes, and considered to be a disfunction of the apocrine gland. See Garrison & Morton No.3996 (1880); Ehring, Skin Diseases, 224 (1880); Pusey, Hist. Dermatol., 147-148; Shelly-G., Classics in Clinical Dermatology, p.324. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 43870

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Titel: Photographic Illustrations of Skin Diseases.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1881

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