The first dermatological book written in English. It appeared in four sections, 1798-1808. Willan is regarded as the founder of modern dermatology. He proposed an early classification of skin disease.

Established for the treatment of skin contagions such as scabies, and for chronic afflictions such as cutaneous ulcers.

Important for the development of dermatology as a speciality.

The first significant skin hospital established in Great Britain and Ireland. Later moved to Blackfriars.

The very first skin hospital in Scotland, established by Dr Thomas McCall Anderson.

Founded by Sir Erasmus Wilson and published by John Churchill and Sons, London. The second dermatological journal to be established worldwide.

The appointment of Dr Fox is seen as the first substantive post in dermatology at a hospital in Britain and Ireland.

The first skin hospital in the USA. Opened by Dr Louis Duhring, who, in 1876, also established the American Dermatological Association.

Established by Drs Malcolm Morris and Henry Brooke with support from the Dermatological Society of London. Published by H.K. Lewis, London. The ‘and Syphilology’ was dropped in 1951.

Formed from the Dermatological Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the Dermatological Society of London.

Agnes Blackadder was the first female dermatologist in Britain and Ireland, and the first woman graduate (MA) from the University of St Andrews.

Later became Transactions of the St John’s Hospital Dermatological Society in 1927 and, in 1976, Clinical and Experimental Dermatology.

The association was first proposed in 1919 by Sir Archibald Gray. Malcolm Morris was the first president. The name was later changed to the British Association of Dermatologists.

Formation of the MSSCD separated management of sexually transmitted diseases from Dermatology in the British Isles, underscored by government funding, aimed at reducing venereal risk in military and wider public.

Dr Geoffrey Dowling of St Thomas Hospital, London, established a teaching session for registrars in London during the 1940s. This was formalised into the Dowling Club, dedicated to teaching dermatology.”

This professorship, endowed by Sir Robert McVitie Grant, was the first full chair in Dermatology in Britain and Ireland. George Percival was the initial incumbent.

Alice Carleton, a Dubliner who moved to the University of Oxford, initially to teach anatomy, moved across to Dermatology and became the first woman to be president of the BAD.

A sum of £2,500, profits from the London International Congress of Dermatology, were gifted to the Royal College of Physicians’ new building at Regent’s Park, to establish a room for use by dermatologists and to house the book collection.

The first editors of the Textbook of Dermatology were Arthur Rook of Cambridge, Darrell Wilkinson of High Wycombe, and John Ebling of Sheffield.

A national ‘Specialty Certificate in Dermatology’ examination was devised, allowing those that passed to apply for the postnominal MRCP (UK) (Dermatology).