Crissey J T, Parish L C
University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA.
J Am Acad Dermatol. 1998 Dec;39(6):1002-6. doi: 10.1016/s0190-9622(98)70277-4.
Two hundred years ago the English physician Robert Willan published the first section of his masterwork, On cutaneous diseases. In it he described and demonstrated a new way of examining cutaneous eruptions that enabled physicians dealing with skin diseases to impose, for the first time, a significant degree of order on a field in which disorder had been the rule. The utility and successful application of the new approach soon attracted the attention of a talented cadre of physicians who embraced the study of the skin and its problems with enthusiasm, and dermatology as a specialty came into its own. The details of the Willan approach and the overwhelming influence it exerted on the future of the specialty are described in this article. 1798, the year the section was published, was an annus mirabilis for dermatology, and 1998 can be considered the bicentennial of the birth of the specialty.
两百年前，英国医生罗伯特·威兰出版了他的杰作《论皮肤病》的第一部分。在书中，他描述并展示了一种检查皮肤疹的新方法，这使治疗皮肤病的医生首次能够在一个一直处于无序状态的领域中建立起相当程度的秩序。这种新方法的实用性和成功应用很快吸引了一批有才华的医生的关注，他们满怀热情地投身于皮肤及其问题的研究，皮肤病学作为一门专业学科应运而生。本文将介绍威兰方法的细节及其对该专业未来产生的巨大影响。1798年，即该部分出版的年份，对皮肤病学来说是奇迹之年，而1998年可被视为该专业诞生的两百周年纪念。
