THE BOUNDARIES OF DERMATOLOGY
- 1 January 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
- Vol. 65 (1) , 1-11
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1952.01530200005001
Abstract
THE PIONEERS of dermatology were confronted with the task of analyzing and classifying the many morphologic changes which they observed. They soon learned that certain systemic symptoms accompanied some of the more or less constant morphologic manifestations, and early in the study of dermatology they realized that skin diseases might originate from internal infections or other systemic alterations. Throughout the history of dermatology an effort has been made to correlate external and internal diseases, and with some success. With advances in knowledge the interrelation of the two is becoming more apparent. The skin not only is an organ on which physiologic disturbances are projected, but it has, to a limited degree, its own diseases regulated by its own laws. We, as dermatologists, are interested not only in what internal diseases do to the skin, but also, conversely, in what a severe skin disease, such as a generalized dermatitis, does toKeywords
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