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The Rediscovery of Previously Described Dermatoses
Roland R. Tomb, MD, PhD;
Edouard Grosshans, MD
From the Department of Dermatology, Hôtel-Dieu de France Hospital and Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon (Dr Tomb); the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg and Université Louis-Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (Dr Grosshans).
Arch Dermatol. 2001;137:715-718.
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Who discovered America? By some accounts, it was Christopher Columbus, who left Palos, Spain, on August 3, 1492, and dropped anchor off the coast of Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, not far from Haiti, on October 12 of the same year. Other historians, paleographers, and polemicists offer different accounts based on literary and archeological evidence suggesting that first the Phoenicians and later the Vikings arrived on these coasts and discovered the New World well before Genoa's maritime genius. Even assuming these latter accounts are true, we cannot ignore the outstanding achievements of Columbus: he introduced Europe to the new continent and initiated a new adventure in human endeavor, what have come to be known as "modern times." Nevertheless, only a small part of the New World remains associated in name with this discoverer—Columbia. Place names have been unfair in that respect, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]REDISCOVERY: THE NEGATIVE SIDE
EPONYMOUS ATTRIBUTIONS: GOOD AND BAD
ACRONYM DISGUISES
SHIFTING TERMINOLOGY
SOME REDISCOVERIES ADVANCE OUR KNOWLEDGE
CULTURAL CHAUVINISM
CONCLUSIONS
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