Sarcoidosis was described by an English doctor.
James Henry Bennet ( 1816 -- 1891 ) was an English doctor who helped popularize the French Riviera as a Winter holiday destination in the 19th century with his 1861 book Winter and Spring on the Shores of the Mediterranean . Sarcoidosis . Sarcoidosis was first described in 1877 by the English doctor Jonathan Hutchinson as a non painful skin disease .