[The establishment of the first journals of dermatology and venereology in the nineteenth century].

Medical periodicals specialized in dermatology and sexually transmitted diseases were first published during the second half of the nineteenth century. Their goal was to promote the diffusion of medical knowledge, among specialists (clinical research), as well as towards general practitioners (medical education). Until now, medical journals are the major tool for the diffusion of news and progress in medicine. We briefly describe the first of these dermatological journals: Syphilidologie, founded in 1838 in Leipzig by Friedrich Jacob Behrend; Annales des maladies de la peau et de la syphilis, the first truly dermatological journal, published in Paris from August 1843 to 1852 by Alphée Cazenave; Giornale italiano delle malattie veneree e delle malattie della pelle, founded in 1866 in Milan by Giovanni Battista Soresina; Journal of cutaneous medicine and diseases of the skin, created in London in 1867 by Erasmus Wilson, and which lasted only four years; Annales de dermatologie et de syphiligraphie, founded in Paris in 1868 by Adrien Doyon, which are still published now; Archiv für Dermatologie und Syphilis, published in Prague in 1869 by Heindrich Auspitz and Filipp Josef Pick; The American Journal of Syphilography and Dermatology, the first non-European dermatological periodical, created in 1870 in New York by Morris H. Henry.