DERMATOLOGICAL JOURNALS IN BRITAIN.

The article provides information the history of dermatological journals in Great Britain. The first medical periodicals were published in the seventeenth century and were adaptations of contemporary news-sheets, ephemeral and of limited circulation, designed to serve political or personal rather than scientific ends. The earliest known to have been published in Britain was "Medidna Curiosa," in 1684. The transactions of learned societies and the general medical journals published from their earliest days many papers on dermatology and what are now other specialties. The "Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Diseases of the Skin, A Quarterly Record of Dermatological Science," was published by John Churchill and Sons, of London. For about 20 years after the failure of the Journal of Cutaneous Medicine there was no journal of dermatology in Britain. The "British Journal of Dermatology," which was in its first decade, came as a specialist periodical of that time.