The History of Dermatology

"The Art of Healing would seem to be of all arts the most honourable, even tho’ no better reason could be given for it, than that it is the most difficult. The last is indeed so true, that the task appears insurmountable to many, and even to some of those whom propitious Heaven has bless’d with the brightest and most intelligent faculties. The provident and all-wise Governor of the Universe, has therefore imprinted on some minds a great and insuperable attachment to this science, not to be overcome with difficulties, or rather which knows no difficulties; to whom the study is as easy as it is natural, and is so far from being a task, that it becomes a considerable part of their happiness…". Robert Willan, a kinsman of Robert Willan (1757-1812), from Essay on the King's Evil (1746)