Vienna School of Dermatology
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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]]