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WITH NOTES ON THE SUBSEQUENT PERIOD

J. E. LANE, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1925;11(6):721-735.

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Dermatosyphilology in the United States began to show signs of growth about the middle of the nineteenth century, and by 1871 its foliage was so luxuriant that White,¹ evidently thinking that there was need of pruning, said:

Another new feature in the literature of cutaneous diseases is the publication of separate books on single affections.... Some of these have swollen to a monstrous size, and if pricked of their verbiage, personal conceit, and whims, and stripped of their ridiculously arbitrary and undemonstrated theories, would dwindle to the reasonable limits which a simple record of facts and justifiable deductions alone require.

This gentle judgment possibly may have given the inspiration to L. Duncan Buckley² for the motto "Brevity, indeed, upon some occasions, is a real excellence. Cicero, Brutus, 13, 50," which he, in 1874, chose for his Archives of Dermatology, which at that date became the successor of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW HAVEN, CONN.

Footnotes
Read at the Meeting of The Beaumont Medical Club, Cromwell, Conn., Oct. 10, 1924.

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