Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2006

THOMAS M'CALL ANDERSON (1836-1908) A treatise on diseases of the skin. P. Blakiston 1887 xviii [17]-662 [2] 23 [9] pp., [3] plates (2 col., double front.), 1 fold. chart, 69 illus. 23.3 cm.

Like his father, Anderson decided to become a physician and studied medicine at Glasgow, where he graduated in 1858. He began his career by lecturing on medicine at Anderson's College, founded in 1796 by his great-uncle John Anderson (1726-1796), and also serving as physician to the Royal Infirmary. Anderson assumed the chair of clinical medicine at Glasgow in 1874 and, the same year, was transferred to the chair of clinical medicine at the newly opened Western Infirmary. He returned to Glasgow as professor of physic at the university in 1900. Dermatology was his special interest and Anderson was also one of the founders of the Hospital for Skin Diseases. The present work and On the parasitic affections of the skin (London, 1861) are his best known books. This treatise was published simultaneously with the London edition and is identical to it. The two color plates and many black and white illustrations support Anderson's purpose of emphasizing the classification, diagnosis, and treatment of a broad spectrum of skin disorders. His descriptions are accurate but his therapeutics have long since passed out of use. Nevertheless, the work is an important bridge between the beginning of dermatology and the advent of the modern approach to the management of skin diseases.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.