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Arch Dermatol. 2001;137:1520.

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SEPTEMBER 2001 marked the 125th Anniversary of the American Dermatological Association (ADA), the first and oldest national dermatological association in the world. In June 1876 at the American Medical Association Meeting, 6 physicians decided to form a dermatology society: George Henry Fox, MD, and L. Duncan Bulkley, MD, both of New York, NY; Louis A. Duhring, MD, of Philadelphia, Pa; I. E. Atkinson, MD, of Baltimore, Md; Lunsford P. Yandell, MD, of Louisville, Ky; and Edward Wigglesworth, MD, of Boston, Mass.

Three months later, on September 5 and 6, at the close of the Section of Dermatology and Syphilology meeting at the International Medical Congress in Philadelphia, the founders and other invited dermatologists held an organizational meeting and formally established the the ADA. The simple purpose of the organization as stated in its constitution, "to promote the study of dermatology without neglecting syphilology," was gradually extended to "the promotion of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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