THE BOWEN TYPE OF EPITHELIOMA
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- 1 December 1921
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
- Vol. 4 (6) , 769-777
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1921.02350250048004
Abstract
The early works on and workers in dermatology dealt with conditions in a more or less general way. There was to a certain extent an attempt, no matter how crude it may have been, to survey the field with a broad outlook, dividing it up here and there into by-ways. The development, enlargement and multiplication of these by-ways has progressed with such rapid strides that today there is an overabundance of paths which have no meeting place in common, or at best a blind ending. Synthesis is forgotten, while analysis is the password of the worker. Slight differences in clinical or microscopic appearances are made the basis of a new disease, with the result that a veritable maze of descriptions, under as great a wealth of titles, has arisen. Some of these titles are absolute misnomers, while others have no basis of fact justifying their usage. An example of suchKeywords
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