Tidman and the Masquerades
Dr. Michael J. Tidman of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh NHS Trust asks questions that have never been asked, at least so overtly and with such precise language. He aims to unmask poseurs of a particular type: dermatological ailments that present in such a way that a person might presume them to be something other than what they really are. Here are three especially provocative studies Dr. Tidman and his colleagues have penned and published.
Is Pemphigoid Excoriée Bullous Pemphigoid? “Pemphigoid Excoriée: A Further Variant of Bullous Pemphigoid?” S.J.R. Allan and M.J. Tidman, British Journal of Dermatology, vol. 141, no. 3, 1999, pp. 585–86. This is one of the few medical studies that uses the term “acnestis”, which, according to the 1906 edition of Lippincott’s Medical Dictionary (by Ryland W. Greene and Joseph Thomas, published by Lippincott), means “that part of the back which one cannot readily scratch; the upper part of the back.” …
(That’s an excerpt from the article “Dots and Spots,” Published in AIR 14:5.)