An early selective Medline: Henry Stelwagon's 1916 textbook of dermatology.
BACKGROUND
With the rapidly increasing amount of surgical and laser knowledge that has to be learned, we run the risk of not spending enough educational efforts on the morphologic findings on which the specialty of dermatology is based.


OBJECTIVE
To briefly review and evaluate a 1916 dermatology text by Henry Stelwagon.


CONCLUSIONS
This text has excellent clinical descriptions of diseases. As a bonus, we can find a succinct summary of the world literature up to 1916 on each topic presented.
Jackson
Robert
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D001635:Bibliography of Medicine; D003880:Dermatology / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D016239:MEDLINE; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000266:history*; D013782:Textbooks as Topic / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States