title: The Neil Smith Memorial Lecture: John Laws Milton. The Founder of St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin.
abstract: John Laws Milton, a 19th-Century surgeon, founded the St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin close to Leicester Square in London in 1863. This article reviews his single-minded effort to establish dermatology as a medical subspeciality and to create a proper skin diseases hospital. The review also details his many contributions to the medical and dermatological literature, including his insightful description of the pregnancy dermatosis, herpes (pemphigoid) gestationis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatological Immunopathology, St. John's Institute of Dermatology, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, UK. martin.black@kcl.ac.uk
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Black
mesh_terms: D003880:Dermatology / Q000266:history*; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006782:Hospitals, Special / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D006559:Pemphigoid Gestationis / Q000266:history; D011247:Pregnancy; D011642:Publications / Q000266:history; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000266:history*