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Sorted by what the tissue was doing
Hebra, and the end of the surface list. 4 pages.
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Sorted by what the tissue was doing
Hebra reclassified skin disease on pathological anatomy rather than on appearance, which turned a catalogue of surfaces into a discipline.
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The list that came before
Earlier classification sorted by what a lesion looked like, which put unrelated conditions together and separated related ones.
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The ward as a classroom
Teaching happened at the bedside in a very large public hospital, and the scale of the institution is what made the classification possible.
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Kaposi, after him
His successor described in 1872 the tumour that still carries his name, and the paper is a model of the school's method.
