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Mark Bernhardt, MD

Arch Dermatol. 2009;145(8):962.

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For nigh on 2 decades, this journal has offered me the opportunity in the "Archives a Century Ago" to exercise my left brain: analyzing, comparing, and recounting the history of dermatology within the context of medicine and the wider world. I am now doubly honored to be allowed to use my right brain to address the same issues in a more visual, idiosyncratic fashion. Knowing too many artists, I hesitate to glorify these irregular contributions as Art, but they do come from another part of my soul, and I hope they find some resonance in you, the Readers. This inaugural feature of "The Other Half " I call The Creature of Habits (Figure).

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Editor’s Note. With this "Notable Note," we expand our repertoire to artistic comments upon the human condition from a medical perspective. Notable Notes have discussed the dermatologic diseases of fictional literary characters . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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