ABSTRACT
Preface Dermatology and ophthalmology are reputedly the two specialties in medicine that have the ‘most diseases’. If this is the case, it may be because in only these two specialties, compared to all the others, the disorder is obvious. This makes dermatology a special skill, tending to attract the ‘Sherlock Holmes’-type of physician. This kind of individual will, in clinical practice, assiduously look for clues and will experience genuine pleasure when involved in the deductive process. This book should satisfy his/her intellectual lust.
