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Overview

The word "sprue" is derived from a Dutch word "sprouw". The term was used to describe a condition causing chronic diarrhea and apthous ulcers in Belgium.
The term tropical sprue was coined by Sir Patrick Manson in the year 1880.
In 1960's tropical sprue was thought to be the major cause of malabsorption in both adults and children.^[1]
In the 1960's there was an epidemic of tropical sprue affecting 35,000 people in India.^[2]^[2]