Eighteenth-Century Dermatological Handbook
Ever wonder about what an 18th-century physician or surgeon needed to know about skin diseases? For the very first time, the 18th-century handbook, Doctrina de Morbis Cutaneis (1783 edition), has been translated into English.
In an effort to distill confusing information about skin diseases into a simple system for his students, Joseph Jacob Plenck (1738â1807)âunknowingly and without any recognitionâset the study of skin disease on a path toward formal specialization. Doctrina was the text that inspired Robert Willan (1757â1812) to make his own system; thus, Doctrina is the foundational text of dermatology.
In the 250th anniversary of the first edition of this work (1776), it is our intent both to honour Plenck with a translation of his masterful work and to reveal its secrets to modern readers and scholars.
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Ever wonder about what an 18th-century physician or surgeon needed to know about skin diseases? For the very first time, the 18th-century handbook, Doctrina de Morbis Cutaneis (1783 edition), has been translated into English.
In an effort to distill confusing information about skin diseases into a simple system for his students, Joseph Jacob Plenck (1738â1807)âunknowingly and without any recognitionâset the study of skin disease on a path toward formal specialization. Doctrina was the text that inspired Robert Willan (1757â1812) to make his own system; thus, Doctrina is the foundational text of dermatology.
In the 250th anniversary of the first edition of this work (1776), it is our intent both to honour Plenck with a translation of his masterful work and to reveal its secrets to modern readers and scholars.
