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Dermatology and history in Wales (Cymru) *
Author(s) -
HODGSON GEOFFREY
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1974.tb06702.x
Subject(s) - celtic languages , industrialisation , medicine , history , dermatology , ancient history , law , political science
SUMMARY The development of dermatology in Wales (Cymru) is traced against a short history of the independent kingdom which became the Principality. Skin diseases were treated by the earliest Cymry, Celtic druids, Celto‐Christian priests, Anglo‐Saxon leeches and court physicians, and later by medieval university graduates and unskilled village herbalists and, when industrialization came, by ‘truck doctors’ and general practitioners. The early dermatologists are described. Traditional holy wells and folk medicine form connecting links.