Crohn's disease historical perspective
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Historical Perspective
- In 1806, Combe and Sanders, physicians of royal college london reported the first case of Crohns disease
- In 1913 Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771) and by Scottish physician T. Kennedy Dalziel described inflammatory bowel diseases in detail for the first time.[1]
- In 1913, Dr.Kennedy reported the surgical evidence in his paper "Chronic Intestinal Entritis".
- In 1932, American gastroenterologist Burrill Bernard Crohn, after whom the disease was named, along with two colleagues, described a series of patients with inflammation of the terminal ileum, the area most commonly affected by the Crohn's disease.[2]
- In 1932, Burrill Bernard Crohn at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital, described fourteen cases , and submitted them to the American Medical Association under the rubric of "Terminal ileitis: A new clinical entity".
- Later that year, he, along with colleagues Leon Ginzburg and Gordon Oppenheimer published the case series as "Regional ileitis: a pathologic and clinical entity."[2]