The Neil Smith Memorial Lecture: John Laws Milton. The Founder of St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin
- 28 January 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
- Vol. 28 (1), 89-91
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2230.2003.01178.x
Abstract
John Laws Milton, a 19th‐Century surgeon, founded the St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin close to Leicester Square in London in 1863. This article reviews his single‐minded effort to establish dermatology as a medical subspeciality and to create a proper skin diseases hospital. The review also details his many contributions to the medical and dermatological literature, including his insightful description of the pregnancy dermatosis, herpes (pemphigoid) gestationis.Keywords
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