William John Munro and Munro's abscess, and Franz Kogoj and Kogoj's spongiform pustule
William John Munro and Munro's abscess, and Franz Kogoj and Kogoj's spongiform pustule
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DOI:
10.1097/00000372-200208000-00016
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发表时间:
2002-08-01
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
Steffen, C
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作者:
Steffen, C
Our only source of information about Munro is a short biography written by Adrian Johnson (1) in this journal some 20 years ago. Requests to Sidney, Paris, and London went unanswered. Johnson (1) wrote that Munro was born in Sidney, Australia, in 1863 and that he graduated in Arts from Sidney University in 1880. He proceeded to Edinburgh, where he graduated in Medicine in 1884 (Fig. 1) and was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons, London. He returned to Glebe, Sidney, where he engaged in general practice until 1896. After a breakdown in his health, he returned to Europe where, for 3 years, he worked in the laboratory of Sabouraud at l’Hôpital Saint Louis and elsewhere in London, Vienna, and Berlin. It was while he was working in Sabouraud’s laboratory that he wrote his article entitled “Note sur l’histopathologie du psoriasis.” In 1900, he returned to Sidney, where he acquired a reputation and a growing practice in dermatology and syphilology. He wrote on syphilis, acne rosacea, contact dermatitis, and the use and abuse of arsenic in the treatment of skin diseases in the Australian Medical Gazette and collaborated with Herschel Harris, an early radiotherapist, on epilation of the scalp for ringworm. In 1905, Munro published an illustrated paper on Treponema pallidum just a few months after its discovery by Schaudinn and Hoffmann on the other side of the world. On July 25, 1908, Munro’s active life was cut short by a cerebral hemorrhage. Johnson (1) noted that even in 1983, it was difficult to find personal details about Munro, because anyone who knew him personally had long since died.