Sarcoidosis With Involvement of the Nervous System

SINCE Boeck¹in 1899 first described the skin lesions that have since come to bear his name, a large number of accounts of the disease have appeared in the literature. The disease is known by a variety of names, of which sarcoidosis, benign lymphogranulomatosis, and Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease are the commonest. The condition described by Heerfordt²under the title of "febris uveo-parotidea subchronica," later known as Heerfordt's syndrome, has now come to be recognized as a special manifestation of the same disease. The early history of the disease has been fully reviewed by Hunter,³Pautrier,⁴Gravesen,⁵Leitner,⁶and others. Although Boeck was the first to describe the histological characteristics of the skin lesions, Hutchinson (cited by Hunter³) had already published a clinical description of such a case in 1875 and of two others in 1898. It was Schaumann,⁷however, in 1914, who first