Cover figure: The old Vienna General Hospital (bottom) was inaugurated on 16 August 1784 by Emperor Josef II (copper etching by Josef and Peter Schaffer). Among some of the most famous physicians were pathologist Anton Weichselbaum (top left), who described important details of rheumatoid arthritis (Archiv fur pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und fur klinische Medizin, 1878) (top middle), and Moriz Kaposi (top right), who was the first to recognise the systemic nature of lupus erythematosus (Archiv fur Dermatologie und Syphilis, 1869).