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Excerpt from A Text-Book of Dermatology
There is, however, an inherent danger bound Up with its advan tages; that is the danger of falling to too great an extent under the influence of tradition. Forty years ago French dermatology was suffering from the defects of its merits and it is only recently that such conceptions as are implied in the terms herpetism, arthritism, lymphatism, etc., have ceased to sway French dermatological thought and traces of these conceptions still linger in French medical literature, side by side with the most advanced thought in medical science.
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