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During early Ancient Greece (400s BC), whilst Hippocrates pioneered medicine and particularly skin disease categorisation, psoriasis (“psora”, for “itch”) and lepra (“lopos”, for “epidermis”) were often conflated. Much later during the Roman empire, another medical encyclopaedist by the name of Aulus Cornelius Celsus would go on to describe the skin condition and conflate it this time with…