Daniel Turner (physician)

Daniel Turner (18 September 1667 – 13 March 1740/41)^[1][2][3] was a London physician who published the first textbook on dermatology in English. De Morbis Cutaneis was first published in 1714 and went through several English editions. It was also published in French and German.^[4]

Turner started his medical career as a barber surgeon. In 1723 he was awarded a Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D.) by Yale College, the first ever D.M. awarded by the US college.^[4][5]

References

1. Wilson, Philip K. (2004). "Turner, Daniel (1667–1741), surgeon and physician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27844. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. Wilson, P. K. (1994). "Daniel Turner and the Art of Surgery in early eighteenth-century London". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 87 (12): 781–785. PMC 1294998. PMID 7853312.
3. Grzybowski, Andrzej; Kanclerz, Piotr; Parish, Lawrence Charles (2020). "Daniel Turner (1667-1740)". Clinics in Dermatology. 38 (2): 265–269. doi:10.1016/j.clindermatol.2019.07.024. PMID 32513408.
4. Thorne Crissey, John; Parish, Lawrence C.; Holubar, Karl (2003). Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists. CRC Press. p. 10. ISBN 9781841848648.
5. "Daniel Turner (1667-1740) Dermatologist, Surgeon, Physician". JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 213 (5): 863. 1970. doi:10.1001/jama.1970.03170310141051.