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A Treatise on Diseases of the Skin

Born in Munich, Germany, Litienthal was granted his doctorate of medicine from the University of Munich in 1838.  He migrated to America in 1839.  He joined the faculty of the New York Homoeopathic Medical College in 1869, as chair of clinical medicine.  Lilienthal's Homoeopathic Therapeutics is well know to everybody in the profession.  Somebody has rightly said, "For the fresh graduate this book will be invaluable.. to the older one who says he has no use for this book, we have nothing to say.  He is a good one to avoid when well, and to dread when ill.  " this is the only book of Lilienthal which we are aware of.  Did he wrote any other gem? You will be surprised he didi.  We were also surprised when we discovered A Treatise on Diseases of the Skin by S. Lilienthal, M.D., in the library of Dana Ullman in California, who himself was unaware of the presense of the book in his library.  This copy is Lilienthal's own copy which is interleaved and has additional notes by the author in his own miniature writing.  Dr. Dana Ullman was kind enough to lend this copy to us for reprinting and making this gem available to the lovers of hmoeopathy.  This book is an antique published way back in 1876. The first and foremost task was to transcript the blackink miniature notes written by the author on the interleaved pages.  A task easier said than done. This was achieved by our professional team of two editors namely Dr. Rohit Jain and Dr. Taru Bhagat who painstackingly deciphered word by word with the help of a handlens.