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edited by Daniel J. Wallace and Bevra Hannahs Hahn, 6th ed, 1348 pp, with illus, $199, ISBN 0-7817-2464-3, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001.

JAMA. 2002;288:251-252.

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The title of the book is a tribute, perhaps inadvertent, perhaps intended, to Edmund L. Dubois (1923-1985), for it really is his lupus. Systemic lupus erythematosus was not mentioned in early rheumatology texts, and even as late as 1948 was absent or at best squeezed into a few pages.¹ Dermatologists had known of its skin manifestations since von Hebra's description in the mid-19th century, which was further enhanced by his son-in-law and student, Moriz Kaposi (born Kohn, but he changed his name while at the University of Vienna to avoid confusion with another Moriz Kohn in his class), and Cazenave and Osler also advanced the concept. Systemic lupus was included among the collagen diseases by Klemperer, Pollack, and Baehr in 1942, and thus introduced to rheumatology. The description of the LE cell by Hargraves later in that decade added science to clinical description, as corticosteroids added effective treatment.

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