George Henry Fox

George Henry Fox (born October 8, 1846 in Ballston Spa , † May 3, 1937 in Manhattan ) was an American dermatologist.

Live and act

George Henry Fox traced his family tree back to a Thomas Fox who lived in Concord, Massachusetts around 1640 . During the last eight months of the Civil War he fought in the ranks of the Union Army . In 1867 he graduated from the University of Rochester with a Bachelor of Arts degree . From Rochester he went to the University of Pennsylvania , where he earned his medical doctorate in 1869. Then worked for a year as a doctor at Blockley Hospital in Philadelphia and then went to Europe for three years for further training:

• to Berlin to Rudolf Virchow
• to Vienna to Ferdinand von Hebra , Isidor Neumann , Leopold Schrötter von Kristelli and Karl Stoerk
• to Paris to Pierre Antoine Ernest Bazin (1807–1878), Alfred Hardy and Émile Vidal and finally
• to London to William Tilbury Fox and Jonathan Hutchinson .

Ferdinand von Herbra in Vienna inspired him to specialize in dermatology . In London, in the clinic of William Tilbury Fox, he met his compatriot Henry Granger Piffard , with whom he subsequently worked closely.

Works

• Together with Henry Granger Piffard. Cutaneous and veneral memoranda . William Wood, New York 1877 (digitized) .
• A clinical study of molluscum contagiosum. Chicago 1878 (digitized)
• Photographic illustrations of skin diseases. EB Treat, New York 1880 (digitized version) . 2nd edition 1887 (digitized) . 2. Series 1889 (digitized version)
  • Iconographie photographique des maladies de la peau, par GH Fox, ... Traduction par le Dr Holman. 48 planches d'après nature, colors à la main. J.-B. Baillière, Paris 1882. (digitized version)
• Photographic illustrations of cutaneous syphilis. EB Treat, New York 1881 (digitized version)
• Skin diseases of children. Wood, New York 1897 (digitized)
• A practical treatise on smallpox. Illustrated by colored photographs from life / by George Henry Fox ... With the collaboration of SD Hubbard, S. Pollitzer and JH Huddleston. JB Lippincott, Philadelphia and London 1903 (digitized version)
• Photographic atlas of the diseases of the skin; a series of ninety-six plates, comprising nearly two hundred illustrations, with descriptive text, and a treatise on cutaneous therapeutics. Lippincott, Philadelphia 1905. Vol. I (digitized version) . Vol. II (digitized version) . Vol. III (digitized version) . Vol. IV (digitized version)

literature

• William Allen Pusey. George Henry Fox, MD 1846-1937. In: JAMA Dermatology Patient Page, December 1, 2015 (digital abstract)