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and other venereal diseases were treated. A syllabus was preserved from the lectures presented by Prof. Chanfleury. This manual, written by a student named Mart Kleyer, can be considered the first textbook on dermatology and venereology in the Dutch language. Chanfleury was one of the early members of the ‘Nederlandsche Vereeniging van Dermatologen’ (Dutch Society of Dermatologists), founded in 1896 and he later on became honorary member of that Society. After the resignation of Chanfleury in 1883, the Department of Dermatology and Venereology was temporarily transferred to the surgical clinic. Dirk van Haren Noman Dirk van Haren Noman (1854-1896) succeeded Chanfleury in 1886. He accepted his position with a lecture entitled “The concept of disease in the doctrine of Dermatology”. He had a comprehensive knowledge of histopathology and bacteriology and dedicated his laboratory to their study. Developments in the relatively new medium of photography allowed him to publish a collection of dermatological images in 1889 that ultimately resulted in a standard work “Casuistique et diagnose photographique des maladies de la peau” - French still being the European language of science at the time. By this period, dermatology had increasingly become a discipline of external etiological factors and external therapeutic modalities. This is an important co-factor in explaining the rather eccentric position of dermatology, resulting in a certain distance from other medical specialisms still felt to this day. After Van Haren Noman’s death in 1896 the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases was temporarily transferred to the Wilhelmina Gasthuis due to a lack of space at the Binnengasthuis. 28 A 19th-century view of the Binnengasthuis, Amsterdam, with the Department of Dermatology occupying the left-hand side of the building. BWEADVSMGFINCORR:Opmaak 1 21-07-2014 17:39 Pagina 28