title: The men behind the eponym: Frederick Parkes Weber and Henry a. Christian: Weber-Christian disease.
abstract: Frederick Parkes Weber described relapsing nonsuppurative panniculitis in 1925. In 1928, Henry Asbury Christian added the word "febrile" (relapsing febrile nodular nonsuppurative panniculitis), whereas Brill first coined the eponym "Weber-Christian disease" in 1936. This article traces the lives of Parkes Weber and Henry Christian and summarizes their original publications. It addresses only briefly the controversy as to whether Weber-Christian disease does or does not exist.
authors.affiliation: charlessteffen@cox.net
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Steffen
mesh_terms: D003880:Dermatology / Q000266:history*; D004850:Eponyms; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010201:Panniculitis, Nodular Nonsuppurative / Q000266:history* / Q000473:pathology