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THIS new manual on dermatology is intended as a guide to diagnosis for students and as a reference book for practitioners. It is written by an author who, being primarily a venereologist, believes with some of the French school of dermatologists that syphilis is one of the most important of skin diseases, that dermatology and syphilology are inseparable, and that a comprehensive study of dermatology could be constructed on the sole basis of syphilis and its differential diagnosis. The work is written as a companion to the author‘s book on "The Venereal Diseases". Undoubtedly it is brave of Marshall not merely to take this attitude, but also to fling down the gauntlet in the face of critics, reviewers and other readers in the first seven lines of the book, for much water has passed under the bridges of the Seine since this view was first proposed, and many dermatologists in Britain—while not denying that the study of a systemic disease having protean manifestations has some importance—would regard the challenge as too demoded to consider seriously.
The Skin Diseases
A Manual for Practitioners and Students. By Dr. James Marshall. Pp. xi + 363 + 8 plates. (London : Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1946) 30s. net.
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MACKENNA, R. The Skin Diseases. Nature 163, 5 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163005b0
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