Syphilis und Ekzema seborrhoicum.

Unna, Paul Gerson, 1850-1929.

Journal : Monatshefte für praktische Dermatologie ; vol. vii.

Hamburg & Leipzig : Leopold Voss, 1888.

Description : 1067-1081 p., [1 l.] pl. ; illus: 1 phot. ; 25.2 cm.

Photograph : collotype (Lichtdruck) on printed leaf .

Subject: Skin — Syphilis ; seborrheic dermatitis.

Notes :

• Vortrag, gehalten in der Sektion für Dermatologie und Syphilidologie auf der 61. Naturforscherversammlung in Köln a. Rhein.
• Author caption: Von P. G. Unna.
• Medical degree, Strasbourg, 1876.
• Postgraduate training, Vienna, 1876-80.
• Founder, Monatshefte für praktische Dermatologie, 1882.
• Ordinary honorary professor, first chair of dermatology, Hamburg, 1919.
• Photo caption: Tafel VI ; Unna, Ekzema Seborrhoicum und Syphilis.
• Eponyms (partial list): Unna's disease: seborrheic dermatitis, seborrheic eczema.
• Thost-Unna: hereditary diffuse palmoplantar keratoderma.
• Unna's disease: seborrheic dermatitis, Unna's eczema.
• Unna-Pappenheim stain: for blood smears.
• Unna's stain: alkaline methylene blue stain for plasma cells.
• GM–1879: first coated tablets.
• GM–1883: introduction of ichthyol and resorcinol.
• GM–2439: Histotechnik der leprösen Haut. Hamburg, Leipzig, 1910.
• GM–4000: Die Histopathologie der Hautkrankheiten. Berlin, 1894. Acne bacillus ; diascopy technique.
• GM–4092: Unna's seborrheic eczema.
• GM–4110: Dx of favus.
• Index Medicus: 11401331160, 11500341160, 11500341170.

Wenn Sie das beifolgende Bild (s. Tafel) betrachten, werden Sie mir recht geben, dafs das Syphilid hier recht eigentlich in die Fufstapfen des seborrhoischen Ekzems tritt. Die Patientin, Haushälterin, 54 Jahre alt, war von mir bereits vor 3 Jahren an einem Ekzem des Kopfes, Halses, der Arme und Hände behandelt und damals geheilt worden.—Page 1074.

From inauspicious trials as a medical student—his graduate thesis written off by Recklinghausen—Unna matured into a prominent researcher outside of academia, one who contributed several original descriptions to the modern dermatological canon. In Garrison & Morton he is described, "Unna, short in stature but a giant among dermatologists" and one of the "most eminent" in his profession. After completing postgraduate work with Hebra in Vienna, Unna returned to private practice in Hamburg where he built a 40 bed private skin hospital in the suburb, Eimsbüttel. A laboratory and dormitory were added and by 1888 the hospital had grown in reputation into a leading research and teaching institute with 23 students dedicated to a specialty in dermatology. In 1907 Unna helped to establish a department of dermatology at the University Hospital Hamburg and served as its first director. He founded the journal that published this and other papers on seborrheic eczema, his most important work.