Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2036

JAMES NEVINS HYDE (1840-1910) A practical treatise on diseases of the skin. Lea Brothers 1888 2nd ed. xix [17]-676 [3]-31 [1] pp., 2 col. plates (front.), 96 illus. 23.3 cm.

A native of Norwich, Connecticut, Hyde graduated from Yale in 1861 and entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. At the onset of the Civil War, he abandoned his medical studies to assist in the care and transport of the sick and wounded. Hyde eventually obtained a commission as an assistant surgeon in the Navy and served with distinction in several different assignments. He resigned from the Navy in 1868 and entered the University of Pennsylvania where he received the M.D. degree in 1869. Hyde relocated at Chicago where he became a leading practitioner and a pioneering dermatologist. He served as professor of dermatology at Northwestern University for several years and in 1879 was elected professor of skin, genitourinary and venereal diseases at Rush Medical College, an appointment he held until his death. Hyde is credited with describing the eponymic prurigo nodularis in 1879. Other important contributions include his studies of blastomycosis, sporotrichosis, and pellagra. The present work was first published in 1883 and was one of the most successful dermatology texts of the late nineteenth century. Well illustrated and incorporating the latest therapeutic advances, it went through eight editions.

Gift of Mrs. Diana A. Stokes