This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

G. A. GRANT PETERKIN, M.B.E., M.B., F.R.C.P.Ed.

AMA Arch Derm. 1959;80(1):1-14.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen:

To this meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology I should like to express my most sincere and profound thanks for your kind invitation to this conference and for the signal honor you have bestowed on me in asking me to speak this afternoon and in so speaking to pay tribute to the late James Webster, your deceased President, whose name is thus commemorated. I had not the pleasure of knowing Jim Webster as you did, but his character can be summed up in the words of one of your most distinguished dermatologists: "He was a fine person, kindly, tolerant and well mannered. He was one of the people that everyone liked and he was always a credit to Dermatology."

He loved the Academy and the Academy loved him. In fact, he might be said to have devoted his life to the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Edinburgh, Scotland

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan. 21, 1959.

Physician-in-Charge, Skin Department, Royal Infirmary.

A portion of this address appeared in The Medical Press 238:311, 1957.

The First James R. Webster Memorial Lecture, delivered on Dec. 7, 1958, at the American Academy of Dermatology & Syphilology, Chicago.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?