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Article: CROHN'S: AN ILLNESS STRAIGHT FROM HADES; ENTER FRIDGE NO CURE IN SIGHT, NO CAUSE IN VIEW, GASTROENTEROLOGISTS SOLDIER ON TO TRY ASSUAGEMENT OF CROHN'S ILLNESS.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- January 27, 2004
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Byline: David N. Leff, Science Editor
Crohn's disease is a near-universal ailment from hell.
It owes its name to two European father and son gastroenterologists - Archibald Crohn (1791-1881) and Burrill Crohn (1884?-1983). The fundamental cause of Crohn's disease (CD) remains unknown since Burrill Crohn described its medical manifestations in 1932.
Cigarette smoke, or smoking, seems to be the sole etiological suspect of CD, although other environmental, dietary or bacterial agents are strongly suspected. Yersinia pestis causes plague in humans, rodents and many other mammalian species. They are transmitted from rat to rat and from rat to humans ...