Edward Rosanove was born in Palestine on 12 November, 1896. After migrating to Australia at a young age, he received his schooling at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide. He undertook his medical training at the University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital, and graduated MB BS in 1919. After several years as a general practitioner which included stints in Tocumwal on the Murray River, and a longer period in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote he decided to specialise in dermatology.

Edward visited overseas dermatology clinics and after a stint in Edinburgh he attained the degree of MRCP (Dermatology), Edinburgh in 1933. On return to Australia he became an honorary assistant in the dermatology department of the Alfred Hospital where he served for many years. He became a member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1939. During the war years he conducted the late Bob Brodie's (qv 1) dermatology practice in Collins Street whilst Bob served with the armed forces. After the war he worked for many years in partnership with Bob Brodie, John Summons and later Ian Anderson and Bill Jamieson joined the practice which was by far the largest in Melbourne. Edward was president of the Victorian branch of the British Association of Dermatology in 1950. He was a foundation member of the Dermatological Association of Australia and president of that association in 1958 and 1959. In 1962 he was the president of the section of dermatology at the AMA Congress in Adelaide.

He was known as Manny to his many friends and apart from his many contributions to dermatology he had a life-long devotion to fishing and other hobbies including golf and gardening. He was a devoted family man, and took great delight in the achievements of his family. He was a very gregarious character and his love of life and humour was shared by his first wife Joan, a most colourful barrister, who on occasions entertained us at college meetings with fascinating medico-legal stories. I well remember Joan telling us that the judicial fraternity don't always understand medical terms. This ignorance allowed her to make an impassioned plea on behalf of a woman shop-lifter on the basis that it was understandable that the wretched woman should steal because she suffered from a troublesome chronic and persistent paronychia and the judge may have construed the word to mean paranoia. Suffice to say the judge pardoned the culprit because of the ravages of her complaint. This story is typical of the fun that Manny and Joan dispensed at our conference meetings. It is not surprising that one of their offspring, Mrs Justice Lusink, achieved notoriety in the Family Court and that one of their grandsons, Professor Richard Larkins, has given outstanding service to the Australasian College of Physicians. On Joan's passing and after the passage of time Manny slowly retired from the Melbourne dermatology scene. He lived quietly at Mt Eliza with his new wife Alison and enjoyed his hobbies until he passed away on 6 June 1987. We extend our deepest sympathy to Alison and Manny's extensive family. The Australasian College of Dermatology salutes Manny's many contributions to society and to Dermatology.