Pullar Alfred (2 results)

Brown hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First English Edition. G : in Good condition. Cover edge-worn, rubbed and faded. Outer spine cracked at joints with end chips. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 260mm x 160mm (10" x 6"). xix, 329pp. 67 woodcuts. Translated form the second German edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition in English, translated from the second German edition. 8vo (9 x 6 ins); pp xix, 329; 67 woodcuts in the text. Casebound in sand grained cloth with gilt crest to upper board, spine in compartments with floral devices, gilt inner dentelles. Edges of spine and corner tips lightly rubbed. Spotting to endpapers. All edges gilt. A handsome copy. Originally published in German as "Lehrbuch der Hautkrankheiten". Isidor Neumann was an Austrian dermatologist. He was a student at the so-called Vienna School of Dermatology under Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra (18161880), earning his doctorate in 1858. In 1863 he received his habilitation, and in 1873 became an associate professor. In 1881 he was appointed professor of dermatology and successor to Carl Ludwig Sigmund (18101883) as director of the clinic for syphilis. In an 1886 publication of Vierteljahrsschrift für Dermatologie und Syphilis, he described a type of pemphigus vulgaris, which later became known as Pemphigus vegetans of Neumann. He was also the first to publish a detailed study (Über die senilen Veränderungen der Haut des Menschen) of prematurely aged skin caused by over-exposure to weather conditions. However it wasn't until several years later that Paul Gerson Unna gave it a name, calling it seemannshaut or "sailors' skin". During the Austrian government's occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Neumann was sent to the country to manage the public health problem of syphilis and leprosy. Book.