Vienna School of Dermatology 2626714 223662508 2008-07-05T03:56:00Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other The '''Vienna School of Dermatology''' was a group of dermatologists affiliated to the [[University of Vienna]] who became an important reference in the development of modern [[dermatology]] in the second half of the 19th century. It was founded by [[Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra]] (1816-1888) with the collaboration of his mentor, [[Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky]] (1804-1878) and [[Carl Wedl]] (1815-1891), a [[pathologist]] with interest in [[skin diseases]]. Their pupils, [[Isidor Neumann]] (1832-1906), [[Salomon Stricker]] (1834-1898), [[Heinrich Auspitz]] (1834-1885), [[Moritz Kaposi]] (1837-1902), all of the same generation; and [[Paul Gerson Unna]] (1850-1929) and [[Salomon Ehrmann]] (1854-1926), continued the tradition. Unna later became the father of German dermatopathology. Von Hebra first organized the dermatological service in the [[Vienna General Hospital]]. He was inspired by the movement towards a scientific dermatology already established in [[England]] by [[Robert Willan]] (1757-1812) and [[Thomas Bateman (physician)|Thomas Bateman]] (1778-1821); and in [[France]] by [[Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert]] (1768-1837), [[Laurent-Théodore Biett]] (1781-1840), [[Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave]] (1795-1877) and [[Pierre François Olive Rayer]] (1793-1867). The Vienna School adopted the approach of [[pathology]] (as influenced by the great Carl von Rokitansky, a professor of von Hebra) and the doctrine of local causative agents. For example, 2,000 of the first 2,500 dermatological patients treated by von Hebra had [[scabies]]. The members of the Vienna School discovered and described many new diseases and signs, such as: * [[Auspitz' symptom]] * [[Eczema herpeticum]] * [[Erythema exudativum multiforme]] * [[Hebra’s disease]] * [[Hebra's prurigo]] * [[Impetigo herpetiformis]] * [[Kaposi-Irgang syndrome]] * [[Kaposi's sarcoma]] * [[Lichen acuminatus]] * [[Lichen planus bullosus]] * [[Lichen ruber moniliformis]] * [[Lupus erythematosus]] * [[Pityriasis rubra]] * [[Tinea cruris]] * [[Unna-Politzer naevus]] * [[Unna's disease]] * [[Unna-Thost syndrome]] * [[Xeroderma pigmentosa]] ==Bibliography== * Finnerud CW. Ferdinand von Hebra and the Vienna school of dermatology. ''AMA Arch Derm Syphilol.'' 1952 Aug;66(2):223-32. * Holubar, K. [http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/sfhd/ecrits/euroderm.htm The History of European Dermatopathology] [[Category:History of medicine]] [[Category:Dermatology]]