Volume 68 Numbers 4 & 5 September / October 2001	back to contents

Antique, Archaic and Arcane Dermatologic Instrumentation and Armamentarium	309–320
Douglas D. Altchek, M.D.
Address correspondence to Douglas Altchek, M.D., 115 East 61st Street, New York, NY 10021.

ABSTRACT
Numerous instruments and devices have been used by dermatologists, other physicians
and lay practitioners through the ages to treat skin, hair, nails, venereal diseases, and fat. And there have often been overlaps among the antique, the arcane, the bogus, and the new.

KEY WORDS
Antique, archaic, dermatologic, history, instrumentation, instruments, quackery

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