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Farrington Daniels, Jr., M.D.
Division of Dermatology University of Oregon Medical School Portland 1, Ore.

Madhukar A. Pathak, Ph.D.
Department of Dermatology Harvard Medical School Boston

Present address: Associate Professor of Dermatology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 840 So. Wood St., Chicago 12.

Arch Dermatol. 1961;84(5):848-850.

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To the Editor:—

We have read with great interest Dr. Alfred Hollander's fine report of the Finsen Memorial Congress published in the March ARCHIVES OF DERMATOLOGY (Hollander, A.: The Finsen Memorial Congress, ARCH. DERM. 83:499 (March) 1961). At the Congress there were several meetings running concurrently, and we had the opportunity to attend other of the sessions and would like to add the following comments to Dr. Hollander's review. It is our belief that one of the unfortunate necessities of a large meeting is the separation of the so-called basic from the so-called applied portions of the program. It is our belief that the meeting ground between basic and applied research is an important area for the generation of new ideas and new comprehension. The fact that we have both worked on the same team on different parts of the problems of psoralen photosensitization permitted us to attend different sessions . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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