John Addison Fordyce (born 16 February 1858 in

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, died on 4 June 1925 in New York City) was an American

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, whose name is associated with Fordyce's spot (also known as Fordyce's disease or Fordyce's lesion), Angiokeratoma of Fordyce, Brooke–Fordyce trichoepithelioma, and Fox–Fordyce disease. Fordyce graduated in 1881 with a degree in medicine from the

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. He began his career in

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, but would travel to Europe in 1886. There he studied

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and

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. He returned to the States and settled down in New York, where he was a specialist in dermatology and syphilis. From 1889 to 1893 he taught at the New York Polyclinic, and later he served as a professor at the Bellevue Hospital College and the

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