ABSTRACT
FREDERICK PARKES-WEBER was born on the 8th of May, 1863, in London. His medical education was obtained at Cambridge, with postgraduate studies in Vienna and Paris. He was physician to the German Hospital in London from 1894. His bibliography of approximately 1000 papers, books, and notes was the fruit of over 60 years of continuous productive work at bedside, laboratory and library. Dermatology was well represented in his labors. His name is attached to a sizeable group of syndromes, including Rendu-Osler-Weber’s disease (Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia), the Weber-Klippel syndrome (Hemangiectatic hypertrophy of limbs), Sturge-Weber-Kalischer’s disease (Haemangiectatic nevoid conditions of face and meninges), the Weber-Cockayne syndrome (Epidermolysis bullosa of feet), and Weber-Christian’s disease (Relapsing febrile nodular non-suppurative panniculitis), his account of which is given below. In addition, Parkes-Weber, with Hellenschmied, first described telangiectasia macularis eruptiva perstans, relating it to urticaria pigmentosa. His later contributions included two volumes entitled Rare Diseases, and Further Rare Diseases. He continued to work with untiring enthusiasm and at an unslackened pace until he died peacefully on June 2, 1962, aged 99.*
