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Dermatology, Biography
Classics in Clinical Dermatology With Biographical Sketches
by Walter Brown Shelley and John Thorne Crissey, 50th anniversary 2nd ed, 654 pp, with illus, $99.95, ISBN 1-84214-207-0, Boca Raton, Fla, Parthenon Publishing Group, 2003.
JAMA. 2004;292:508.
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What a pleasure it is to hold this book in my hands! Its superb binding and heavy feel promise an enjoyable read. And that is no tease, for this volume is truly one of the classics of the dermatology literature. The first edition has been out of print for many years, so the publication of a second edition 50 years later is an unexpected treat. But let's go back to the beginning.
In the late 1940s, Dr Walter Brown Shelley, a young resident, was overwhelmed with the amount of new information he had to learn about cutaneous diseases. Shelley had a brilliant mind, which would later make him one of the most respected professors in dermatology. With his propensity to "think outside the box," he reasoned that, if all the important dermatologic disorders were new to him, they must have also been new to the pioneers who originally identified them. . . . [Full Text of this Article]
William P. Coleman III, MD, Reviewer
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, La
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