Horatio George Adamson was a British

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 dermatologist. He studied at St. Bartholomew's Hospital receiving his medical doctorate in 1888. He learned dermatology at the Middlesex Hospital

Middlesex Hospital

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 in London

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 from John James Pringle

John James Pringle

John James Pringle was a Scottish dermatologist. He was born in Borgue, Kirkcudbrightshire and educated at Merchiston Castle school. He graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University in 1876...

. Between 1909 and 1928, he lectured and practiced dermatology at St. Bartholomew's.

While working at the Downs Ringworm School of the Metropolitan Asylums Board in Sutton

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, Adamson developed an interest in mycology

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 and modified Robert Kienböck

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Robert Kienböck was an Austrian radiologist who was a native of Vienna.In 1895 he earned his medical doctorate at the University of Vienna, and spent the next year abroad. He returned to Vienna as an assistant to Leopold von Schrötter , a laryngologist, and began working in the new science of...

's technique for X-ray

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 epilation

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 for scalp ringworm.