THE JOURNAL OF CUTANEOUS DISEASES INCLUDING SYPHILIS
[VOL. XXII.
AUGUST, 1904.
NO. 8.
By JAMES C. WHITE, M.D., Boston, Mass.
Professor of Dermatology, Emeritus, in Harvard University.
Read before the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the American Dermatological Association, Niagara Falls, June 2 and 3, 1904.
A HALF century ago, before the introduction of the thousands of proprietary preparations at present employed by the household, and by physicians as well, in the treatment of skin diseases, and before the days of universal cheap newspapers, largely sustained by the millions of money paid for the advertisement of such popular remedies . . .