An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

FORDYCE, John Addison

2 entries
  • 4123

A peculiar affection of the mucous membrane of the lips and the oral cavity.

J. cutan, gen.-urin. Dis. 14, 413-19, 1896.

Fordyce, remembered for the description of “Fox–Fordyce disease”, also described a pseudocolloid of the buccal mucosa, which is known as “Fordyce’s disease”.



Subjects: DERMATOLOGY › Specific Dermatoses
  • 4137

Two cases of a rare papular disease affecting the axillary region.

J. cutan, gen.-urin. Dis. 20, 1-5, 1902.

“Fox–Fordyce disease”. These writers described a papular, itchy eruption, confined to the axillae, nipples and pubes, and considered to be due to a dysfunction of the apocrine glands.



Subjects: DERMATOLOGY › Specific Dermatoses