1832

In “On Some Morbid Appearances of the Absorbent Glands and Spleen,”  presented to Medical and Chirurgical Society in London, physician and pathologist Thomas Hodgkins presented findings from seven cases of enlarged lymph nodes and spleen – three patients of Richard Bright and Thomas Addison and one of Robert Carswell – but without inflammation or other significant pathology. He noted that the disease spread to contiguous lymph node groups, with spleen involvement a later development  Hodgkin’s disease, the term first used by Samuel Wilks in his 1865 article, “Cases of Lardaceous Diseases and some Allied Affections with Remarks” (M. Stone; Lakhtakia & Burrney; A.M. Kass & E. Kass , 207ff.).