ABSTRACT
EARL WELDON NETHERTON was born in Gallatin, Missouri on April 7, 1893. After a boyhood in Gallatin he graduated from the University of Missouri and went on to receive his M.D. in 1917 from Washington University in St. Louis. Following a residency in Dermatology at Barnard Skin and Cancer Hospital in St. Louis and service in the U.S. Army, he joined the Cleveland Clinic, establishing and nurturing their outstanding Department of Dermatology. A splendid teacher and astute clinician, he published numerous incisive clinical papers on a variety of subjects ranging from beryllium granulomas to vaccine therapy. But, it was his story of the child with bamboo hair that gave him eponymic recognition.
