The History of Dermatology

"It was not until the intelligence began to spread, slowly borne by word of mouth from country to country, that in the Imperial city of Austria there was a man teaching skin diseases as they had never been taught before, with unlimited means of clinical illustration, with the keenest eye for observation, with an unbounded amount of information drawn from many years of experience, with a self-restraint which no desire for premature fame could tempt into hasty publication, and with a sound and logical mind, that the German school of dermatology some fifteen years ago began to be known and to advance to that pre-eminent position it now holds."  -The American James Clarke White, on Ferdinand von Hebra and the Vienna School of Dermatology