Looking Back - History of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology in India

Dermatology, the science of the skin, was one of the many specialties, which evolved from general internal medicine during the course of the nineteenth century. Till this time, physicians with few exceptions were little concerned with the skin, apart from the exanthematic eruptions of acute fevers. During the last decades of that century, contributions of some, such as Heberden, Cullen and Hebra, laid the foundations on which the pioneer specialist dermatologists of the following century were able to build.