VOL. XVI.
APRIL, 1898.
NO. 4.
Original Communications.
A CASE OF MONILETHRIX, WITH AN UNUSUAL DISTRIBUTION.
BY T. CASPAR GILCHRIST, M.R.C.S. (Eng.)
Previous History of the Disease.—The patient is quite sure that the present affection did not make its appearance up to the time when he began to wear trousers and gave up knickerbockers, which occurred at fifteen years of age . . .
J Cutan Genito-Urin Dis. April 1898;16:159.
Editor's Comment:
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine—they are the life, the soul of reading . . . Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
Ours is a visual field, and often as not I write about what first catches my eye.
The early Dutch settlers of New York wore loose-fitting breeches gathered at the knee. Because of the phenomenal popularity of Washington Irving's A History of New York (1809), this type of garment was ever after associated with his pseudonymous narrator, Diedrich Knickerbocker. Indeed, knickerbockers, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
