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Edited by Howard B. Pride, Albert C. Yan, and Andrea L. Zaenglein
204 pp, $119
Philadelphia, PA, Saunders/Elsevier, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-3022-2

JAMA. 2009;301(21):2277-2278.

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Pediatric dermatology has developed into a subspecialty within the past several decades. That is not to say that even the pioneer dermatologists of the 19th century did not pay attention to the "little people." When dermatology was a much smaller specialty and when many parts of the country had few to no specialists, the pediatrician or, for that matter, the family physician, diagnosed and treated the cutaneous maladies of children. As recently as 2 decades ago, Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia had 2 separate pediatric dermatology services, one in the Department of Pediatrics and another in the Department of Dermatology.

Textbooks on pediatric dermatology have been extant for nearly 2 centuries, with the first being Walter Dendy's London text of 1827.¹ Leading dermatologists in the United States, such as George Henry Fox, his son Howard Fox, and George Miller MacKee (with Anthony Cipollaro)—all of New York—published books on the subject.² . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Lawrence Charles Parish, MD, MD (Hon), Reviewer
Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology
Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
larryderm@yahoo.com

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