Lepra, Psoriasis, or the Willan-Plumbe Syndrome?

Russell, Madeline

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2133.1950.tb15477.x

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“…Erasmus Wilson (I867) still thought otherwise and also wished to restore the term alphos. Wilson and other participants in this terminological controversy are discussed by Meenan (1955), and Russell (1950) provides an interesting account of its origins.…”

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Edward Beck's Treatise on Lepra Vulgaris (1834)

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1957

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THIS account of a forgotten contributor to the literature of dermatology arose out of the chance discovery in the Cambridge University Library of a short tract, which proved to be exceedingly rare. 'A Practical Treatise on Lepra Vulgaris', by Edward Beck, M.D., was published in Ipswich in I834. It is probable that few copies have survived, as this work is not possessed by the Libraries of the Royal Colleges or by the Royal Society of Medicine. There are copies in the British Museum and in the National Medical Library in Washington. Edward Beck was born in Needham Market, Suffolk, on I I July I 794, the eldest surviving son of Edward Bigsby Beck, surgeon. He was baptized in the neighbouring village of Barking two days later. His mother was Dorothy Anne, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Bateman, Rector of Igburgh with Langford, Norfolk. The family of Beck, coming originally from Lincolnshire, was well known in Suffolk in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and many of Edward Beck's relatives were medical practitioners, clergymen or small landowners, mainly in the Ipswich area. His paternal grandfather was Edward Beck, surgeon, of Coddenham and Needham Market (died I 780 at the age of forty-eight). Two of his brothers entered the medical profession, Francis Diggon Beck, surgeon of Claydon, and Thomas Bateman Beck, surgeon of Needham Market (Davy MSS.). Edward Beck attended school at Dedham, Essex. In I8I2 he entered St. Thomas's Hospital as a Surgeon's Pupil, paying a fee of 24 guineas for this privilege, and becoming M.R.C.S. in I8I3. He was admitted Fellow Commoner ofJesus College, Cambridge, on 4 October I8I9. He acquired the degree of M.B. in I825 and proceeded to the M.D. in I832. Until I8I3 the requirements for membership of the Royal College of Surgeons were far from exacting. Candidates must have served an apprenticeship to a member and must have been approved by the Court of Examiners. No attendance at lectures or other formal teaching was demanded, and the examination, which was oral and lasted between one and two hours, included no practical test. In I8I3 attendance at a course of lectures in anatomy and on the surgical practice of a hospital for six

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