title: [Multiple benign sarcoid of the skin--100 years since Caesar Boeck's pioneering article].
abstract: In December 1899, Professor Caesar Boeck (1845-1917) in Kristiania (now Oslo) published his pioneering article on "Multiple benign sarkoid of the skin". At the time, Boeck's sarcoid was a dermatological curiosity, but in his latest work in 1916, Boeck recognised the generalised character of the disease. Today, 100 years later, sarcoidosis is still an enigmatic disease. Caesar Boeck was a hard-working clinician and histologist, the founder of modern dermatovenerology in Norway. This article gives an account of Caesar Boeck's family background, his scientific career and his personality.
authors.affiliation: Institutt for medisinske atferdsfag Universitetet i Oslo. erlend.hem@basalmed.uio.no
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hem
mesh_terms: D003880:Dermatology / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009664:Norway; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000266:history* / Q000473:pathology; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000266:history* / Q000473:pathology