James Clarke White (1833–1916) was an American dermatologist and professor at Harvard Medical School. He was the first professor of dermatology in the United States.
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| Born | July 7, 1833 Belfast, Maine |
| Died | January 6, 1916 (aged 82) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Education | Harvard Medical School |
| Occupation(s) | Dermatologist, professor |
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Martha Anna Ellis (m. 1862) |
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Contributions edit
White is one of the namesakes of Darier–White disease, having discovered it independently of Ferdinand-Jean Darier.[1][2] He also wrote a book, Dermatitis Venenata, published in 1887.[3]
Personal life edit
White was born on July 7, 1833, in Belfast, Maine;[4] his father was a shipbuilder and banker and a father of seven, and although his family was mostly of Scotch-Irish descent, one of his great-grandmothers came to the US from Vienna.[3] He was a Unitarian, for most of his life attending the First Church in Boston.[5]
He married Martha Anna Ellis in 1862; they had three sons.[5] His son Charles J. White took over his medical practice in 1914,[1] and became Edivard Wigylesicorth Professor of Dermatology at Harvard and chair of the Harvard dermatology department. His grandson, James Clarke White, was also a professor at Harvard Medical School.[6]
Education and career edit
White entered Harvard College in 1849,[5] at age 16,[1] and graduated in 1853, then studied medicine at Harvard Medical School; this was followed by a further year of medical study in Vienna in 1856–57.[4][3][1]
While operating a private medical practice and visiting at Massachusetts General Hospital, he became an instructor at Harvard in 1858, and an adjunct professor in 1866.[3] In 1871 he was given a chair as professor of dermatology, the first such position in the US. He retired as a professor emeritus in 1902.[5]
Recognition and service edit
He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1866,[3] became the founding president of the American Dermatological Association in 1877, and was re-elected as president two more times, in 1897 and 1907.[1] He was also one of the founder of the Boston Society of Natural History and acted as its anatomy curator.[3]
He was a corresponding or honorary member of the dermatological societies of Argentina, France, Italy, Berlin, London, New York, and Vienna.[5]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f Morris, Malcolm (January 1916), "In Memoriam: James Clarke White", British Journal of Dermatology, 28 (1–3): 1–8, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2133.1916.tb16749.x, S2CID 73299032
- ^ Goodman, Herman (1924), "White's disease: Keratosis follicularis", Eponyms of Dermatology, American Medical Association, pp. 60–61
- ^ a b c d e f Shattuck, F. C. (October 1917), "James Clarke White (1833–1916)", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 52 (13): 873–876, JSTOR 20025731
- ^ a b c "Doctor James Clark White", Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 174 (21): 63, January 13, 1916, doi:10.1056/NEJM191601131740214
- ^ a b c d e Kelly, Howard Atwood (1920), "White, James Clarke (1833–1916)", A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography: Comprising the Lives of Eminent Deceased Physicians and Surgeons from 1610 to 1910, Volume 1, W.B. Saunders Company, pp. 1224–1226
- ^ "J.C. White Dead at 85; Neurosurgeon in Boston", The New York Times, p. D18, January 15, 1981, retrieved June 16, 2022
- ^ "Death Comes to Noted Physician". The Boston Globe. January 6, 1916. p. 5. Retrieved June 16, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
Further reading edit
- Shelley, Walter B. (November 1976), "Major Contributors to American Dematology—1876 to 1926", Archives of Dermatology, 112: 1642–1646, doi:10.1001/archderm.1976.01630360010003, PMID 793527
- Adams, Robert M. (June 1994), "James Clarke White (1833–1916)", Portraits of Greats in Contact Dermatitis, Dermatitis, 5 (2): 115–116, doi:10.1097/01206501-199406000-00015
- Díaz, Rosa M.; Arranz, Dulce M.; Bergón, Marta (January 2004), "James Clark White (1833–1916)", Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas, 95 (9): 593–594, doi:10.1016/s0001-7310(04)76892-1
- Crissey, John Thorne; Parish, Lawrence C.; Holubar, Karl (2013), "James Clarke White, America's First Professor of Dermatology", Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists, CRC Press, p. 80, ISBN 9781841848648
External links edit
- Dermatitis Venenata (1877) on the Internet Archive