raising funds to preserve dermatologic history
What does arsenic have to do with dermatology? Quite a bit, actually. As it turns out, arsenic was virtually everywhere in Europe during the 1800’s when dermatology was developing as a specialty. I always wondered why we spent so much time in residency studying arsenical keratoses, and had always just associated it with drinking contaminated well-water, because over 100 million […]
Read MoreVeering off the usual historical vignette this month, I decided to write instead about something that’s a hot topic this time of year: the residency application personal statement. I do this partly for my own sake; I read at least 200 every year. Foremost, this should be what it states: personal (but not too personal). […]
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Steve Feldman is a question generating machine and maker of magic with tongue depressors. It takes an unusual mind to find links between medical research, mathematical models and world peace, but somehow Dr. Feldman manages to do exactly that. Why dermatology? I went into dermatology because I had a really bad case of poison ivy. At the end of the […]
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Around the time of the International Congress in 1889, the first Japanese dermatologist came to Europe to study dermatology. His name was Kentaro Murata, and he taught the inaugural dermatology course at the Imperial University (University of Tokyo) in 1890. Shortly thereafter, Murata died in 1892– leaving Japan without a professor of dermatology. This coincided with young physician Keizo […]
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