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A HISTORICAL STUDY

WALTER F. LEVER, M.D.; JOHN H. TALBOTT, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1942;46(6):800-823.

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The purpose of this study is to trace the development of the concept of pemphigus as a clinical entity from earliest recorded times to the present. Cases described in past centuries and considered as instances of pemphigus by the authors at that time or by subsequent writers will be discussed. This diagnosis was frequently given in the past to conditions which now would not be called pemphigus because the concept of the disease has undergone considerable change. An attempt will be made in this study to discern, as accurately as possible, the correct diagnosis in the older cases. It is hoped by this method to establish with reasonable assurance the dates of the description of the first cases of pemphigus. The older reviews of the history of pemphigus are short and incomplete, and their value is impaired because the present concept of pemphigus is recent in origin. During the last . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Dermatological and Medical Clinics of the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Fatigue Laboratory, Harvard University.

Footnotes
This investigation was aided by a grant from the Milton Fund, Harvard University, and the Corn Industries Research Foundation.

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