Crohn's Disease
Crohn 's disease is named after Burrill B. Crohn, the physician who described the disease in a paper written in 1972. Crohn 's disease can also be referred to as Morbus Crohn 's, Granulomatous Enteritis, Regional Enteritis, or Terminal Ileitis. Attacks of Crohn 's disease may affect patients in their teens or early twenties, and tend to recur throughout the individual 's life.
The History of Crohn 's Disease
Crohn 's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease of an undetermined cause that afflicts more than five-hundred thousand people in the United States and is not biased in regards to whom it strikes. People unlucky enough to get Crohn 's Disease include the old and young; rich as well as poor; men, women, and children of white, black, and Asian descent; the disease does not discriminate against age, social class, gender or color. Crohn 's primarily attacks the digestive system in the areas of the ileum, which is part of the small intestine and the large intestine (also known as the colon), but can occur in any section of the gastrointestinal tract. Although Crohn 's disease afflicts all age groups, initial diagnosis generally occurs before the age of thirty.
Throughout historical medical literature, during the 19th century, various cases were reported by physicians describing what is known as Crohn 's disease today. Although it was not named until 1932, the first reported case of Crohn 's Disease was in 1806 by Doctors Combe and Sanders to the Royal College of Physicians in London, England (Crohn 's Disease History, 2001). Seventeen years later an Edinburgh physician by the name of John Abercrombie documented one hundred forty-four cases in which there was a clearly outlined difference in ileal and colonic diseases. In comparison to known facts of Crohn 's Disease today, the Edinburgh physician was most likely describing Crohn 's and ulcerative colitis, another inflammatory bowel disease.
Almost a hundred years later, in 1913, there was surgical
The History of Crohn 's Disease
Crohn 's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease of an undetermined cause that afflicts more than five-hundred thousand people in the United States and is not biased in regards to whom it strikes. People unlucky enough to get Crohn 's Disease include the old and young; rich as well as poor; men, women, and children of white, black, and Asian descent; the disease does not discriminate against age, social class, gender or color. Crohn 's primarily attacks the digestive system in the areas of the ileum, which is part of the small intestine and the large intestine (also known as the colon), but can occur in any section of the gastrointestinal tract. Although Crohn 's disease afflicts all age groups, initial diagnosis generally occurs before the age of thirty.
Throughout historical medical literature, during the 19th century, various cases were reported by physicians describing what is known as Crohn 's disease today. Although it was not named until 1932, the first reported case of Crohn 's Disease was in 1806 by Doctors Combe and Sanders to the Royal College of Physicians in London, England (Crohn 's Disease History, 2001). Seventeen years later an Edinburgh physician by the name of John Abercrombie documented one hundred forty-four cases in which there was a clearly outlined difference in ileal and colonic diseases. In comparison to known facts of Crohn 's Disease today, the Edinburgh physician was most likely describing Crohn 's and ulcerative colitis, another inflammatory bowel disease.
Almost a hundred years later, in 1913, there was surgical
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