Moritz (Maurice) Kaposi: Kaposi's Sarcoma

Fifty years ago an elderly Russian gentleman, living in Pimlico, was referred to my out patient clinic at the old Westminster Hospital. He showed me his peculiar bluish red nodular lesion on his lower leg and on the dorsum of his foot. It looked like some sort of vascular tumour, but I certainly could not put a name to it. I took a biopsy. A few days later my pathologist came to see me in great excitement and said that this was his first case of Kaposi's sarcoma. I referred my patient to our radiotherapist, the lesion melted away under the high voltage machine and the old gentleman was delighted with us all!