Henoch–Schönlein Purpura - History

History

The disease is named after Eduard Heinrich Henoch (1820–1910), a German pediatrician, and his teacher Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793–1864), who described it in the 1860s. The English physician William Heberden (1710–1801) and the dermatologist Robert Willan (1757–1812) had already described the disease in 1802 and 1808, respectively, but the name Heberden–Willan disease has fallen into disuse. William Osler was the first to recognise the underlying allergic mechanism of HSP.

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