The New International Encyclopædia/Jackson, George Thomas

JACKSON, George Thomas (1852—). An American physician and dermatologist, born in New York City. He graduated in medicine at Columbia University in 1878, and studied for two years in Europe. From 1884 he devoted himself exclusively to dermatology, and became specialist in that subject in the chief New York colleges and hospitals. He is the author of: Diseases of the Hair and Scalp (1887, revised 1893); Baldness (1889); and The Ready Reference Handbook of Diseases of the Skin (1892).