Wilks in "The Guys Hospital Report" of 1856.1 It was referred to at that time as "lardaceous disease," obviously because of the physical similarity of amyloid to lard. Very few cases were reported until 1908 when Beneke and Bonning2 reported their experience. In 1929 Lubarsch3 reported three cases and suggested the criteria for diagnosis, but by 1930 only 10 cases were in the litera- ture. 1-7
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Eliot et al. (1961) studied this question.