Excerpt from On Diseases of the Skin, Vol. 1: Including the Exanthemata
It was with great pleasure that I acceded to the request of the Council of the New Sydenham Society, communicated to me by their courteous Secretary, Mr. Hutchinson, that I would allow my work on "Diseases of the Skin" (which forms part of Virchow"s "Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie") to be translated into the English language. Of the compliment paid to me by the Society in making this request I am the more sensible, because English literature is already by no means poor in treatises upon cutaneous affections. Thus, although, during the last century, this branch of medical science was cultivated with zeal both in Germany and France, it was England, the country of Willan and Bateman, which took the largest share in what may be termed the Reformation of Dermatology.
In fact, not only all later English writers on diseases of the skin, but also those of every other country, have made use of the Classification of Willan in arranging the subdivisions of their own systems, or, indeed, have even adopted this Classification without modification.
Within the last few years, in particular, several English physicians have pursued the study of cutaneous affections, and have succeeded in adding very considerably to the general fund of knowledge in this department of medicine. Among these I must mention especially my talented friend Mr. Erasmus Wilson, as well as Dr. Anthony Todd Thomson and Dr. T. McCall Anderson.
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