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PIFFARD, Henry Granger (1842 – 1910)

PIFFARD, Henry Granger (1842 – 1910)

1842 – 1910

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Unknown photographer · National Library of Medicine · Public domain

1879 CE

#13855

Bibliotheca dermatologica. Catalogue of cutaneous literature in the library of Henry G. Piffard.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1891 CE

#10598

A practical treatise on diseases of the skin

The first systematic treatise on dermatology published in America. Piffard was a pioneer of "indoor" magnesium flashlight photography, and took most of the 50 photographs reproduced in this book by this technique. Dig…