Eighteenth-Century Dermatological Handbook - by Scott M Jackson & Althea C Ashe (Hardcover)

About the Book

The book contains the English translation of a pivotal 18th-century Latin treatise on skin diseases by the Austrian surgeon Joseph Jacob Plenck (1738-1807) entitled Doctrina de Morbis Cutaneis (Instruction on Cutaneous Diseases). The work is significant because in it Plenck demonstrated the value of categorizing skin diseases by their morphology.

About the Author

Scott Jackson, MD is a practicing dermatologist and adjunct faculty at the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine. He has authored a book on the history of dermatology entitled Skin Disease and the History of Dermatology: Order out of Chaos.

Althea Ashe, PhD is a retired Latin teacher, having taught for 30 years at the university and high school levels. Her Master's degree focused on Latin and Greek, and her doctoral research consisted of developing foreign language teaching strategies.