ABSTRACT
GEORGE ALEXANDER GRANT PETERKIN was born in 1909, and was educated at the Edinburgh University. Following a tetanus immunization he experienced a severe skin eruption. This led to a scholarship in dermatology in Copenhagen. By 1933 he joined the staff of Edinburgh. In 1942 he enlisted in the RAMC and soon was in North Africa recording the first cases of sulfonamide and mepacrine rashes. After the war he returned to Edinburgh, where he remained a clear, no nonsense lecturer and eventually President of the British Association of Dermatology.
