Volume 1

Jacobi's Atlas of dermochromes / with entirely new and original text by Henry MacCormac.

  • Eduard Jacobi
Date:
1926
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Jacobi's Atlas of dermochromes / with entirely new and original text by Henry MacCormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    P reface The present volumes represent the fourth English edition of the well- known Jacobi-Pringle “ Atlas of Dermochromes.” A large number of new plates are now included which have been added by Dr. Karl Zieler, and are used by him in his valuable textbook. While a new text has been written the original plan has been preserved, the descriptive matter being limited to the essentials necessary for diagnosis and treatment. A word may be said about the new arrangement of the subject-matter and plates. Following the model of Dr. Darier, diseases with similar morphological characters, or with some other distinguishing clinical feature, have been brought together into groups; this method possesses many practical advantages, and is seemingly better suited to the purposes of the Atlas than one of the more rigid systems of classification. As a result of this rearrangement, in a very few cases one of the two illustrations on a plate is unavoidably out of its proper place. The original papers and textbooks of many authorities on derma¬ tology have been consulted, in particular those of Dr. J. H. Sequeira, Dr. J. M. H. MacLeod, and Dr. J. Darier, to whom the writer desires to express his indebtedness. On the subject of the infectious fevers, the opinions of the late Dr. C. B. Ker have been freely quoted in many places. Throughout the text the teaching of the late Dr. Pringle, who was responsible for the earlier English editions, must often find expression, for the writer had the good fortune to be associated with him in his hospital practice for many years. He desires here to pay this tribute to the memory of his former teacher. In conclusion, the author wishes to acknowledge the help and consideration he has received from the publishers of the Atlas. HENRY MacCORMAC. London, W.l.