ABSTRACT
Each of the manifestations of sarcoidosis, in different tissues and organs,
was reported as an independent disease by pioneering European scientists, e.g., a skin disease by Hutchinson (1869) (1), Besnier (1889) (2), and Boeck
(1899) (3), a uveoparotid-gland fever by Heerfordt (1919) (4), a bone
disease by Kienbeck (1902) (5), etc. It was in 1914 that Schaumann (6)
proposed these disorders to be local to be manifestations of a disease by
giving a new term ‘‘benign lymphogranuloma.’’
