A Historical Look at the Characterization of Lupus as a Systemic Disease

Ruth Jessen Hickman, MD, is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Medicine. She is a freelance medical and science writer living in Bloomington, Ind.

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Acknowledgment

The author thanks Jane Salmon, MD, for her extensive review of Dr. Kaposi’s seminal work in identifying systemic lupus erythematosus.