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Arch Dermatol. 2001;137:1018.

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VOL. XIX.

AUGUST, 1901.

NO. 8.

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS BEFORE THE AMERICAN DERMATOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION AT THE MEETING IN CHICAGO, JUNE, 1901.

BY FRANCIS J. SHEPHERD, M.D.,
Montreal.

I have thought this a very suitable occasion (the first meeting in the 20th century) on which to look back and estimate the advances made in dermatology during the century which has lately been completed, and also to try and understand how much knowledge the dermatologists possessed a hundred years or more ago regarding the nature and causes of skin diseases. . . .

Nearly all the works on dermatology in the early part of the century have a chapter on Vaccinia or cowpox, and give accurate directions how to procure the vaccine virus, and the appearance of the vaccine "pock" in its various stages is described minutely. Vaccinia is classed under the pustular eruptions. A number of spurious vaccine pocks are described. Casenave . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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