An Early Selective Medline: Henry Stelwagon's 1916 Textbook of Dermatology

Abstract

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. Conclusion: 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.