BATEMAN, Thomas
A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases
Philadelphia: Collins & Croft, 1818. Skin Disease Classification BATEMAN, Thomas. A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases. According to the Arrangement of Dr. Willan, exhibiting a concise view of the diagnostic symptoms and the method of treatment.. First American, from the Fourth London Edition. Philadelphia: Collins & Croft, 1818. First American edition. Octavo (8 x 5 1/8 inches; 204 x 130 mm.). [1]-348 pp. Colored frontispiece "8 orders of Cutaneous Diseases". Title lightly foxed and with light water staining, light foxing throughout but much less than seen in other copies. The colored frontispiece is quite clean and free from foxing, having been spared by the original tissue guard. Title-page with early (pre binding) ink signature of Augustus Prout on top blank margin and notes on pp. 161, 216 & 277. Contemporary American quarter calf over marbled boards, expertly rebacked to style, smooth spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label lettered in gilt, with the binders ticket of "Samuel Gurnee. Bookbinder Tuscumbia, AL" on front paste-down. Front free endpaper with four line ink inscription dated "March 11 - 1849". "It was only five years after Bateman's work was published in London that it appeared in the United States. Willan had recognized eight orders of skin diseases: papulae, squamae, exanthemata, bullae, postulae, vesiculae, tubercula, and maculae. These eight orders re all depicted in the colored frontispiece." (Heirs of Hippocrates, p.421). Thomas Bateman (1778-1821) was a British physician and a pioneer in the field of dermatology. Born in Whitby, Yorkshire, Bateman earned his medical degree from the Edinburgh Medical School. He was a student, colleague, and successor to Robert Willan (1757-1812), a key figure in modern dermatological practices of classification. Prior to the 19th century, skin disease classification was based on symptomatic characteristics. Dr. Willan was the first to propose a rational naming standard based on the appearance of the skin disorder. In his treatise On Cutaneous Diseases, Willan classified skin diseases from an anatomical point of view. After Willan's death in 1812, Bateman continued and expanded his mentor's work. In 1813, Bateman published A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases According to the Arrangement of Dr. Willan, and in 1817, he published an atlas called Delineations of Cutaneous Disease. Bateman is credited with providing names and descriptions for several dermatological diseases, including lichen urticatus, alopecia areata, erythema multiforme, and molluscum contagiosum. The work of Willan and Bateman influenced many physicians, such as Thomas Addison (1793-1860), who was a pupil of Bateman, and Laurent-Théodore Biett (1781-1840), who introduced their methodology into French medicine. Heirs of Hippocrates 1335; Bibliotheca Osleriana (1817 London edition); Haskell Norman 133 (1817 London edition). .

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