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Jan Chisholm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>It was interesting listening to your story about being diagnosed in 1941.
>Recently I had an appointment with a Doctor Russell at New England Medical
>Center in Boston. He said that celiac disease was first discovered during
>the war, when children in Germany, who had been deprived of bread for lack of
>having enough, actually thrived and became healthier.

Jan,

You're close, but it was Holland where the children were observed. After the
war they isolated that gluten was the toxic part of bread and in 1950 W.H.
Dicke announced this to the world when he published his doctorate thesis.

More history on CD is in several books, but a good one, with an historical
timeline, is the first chapter of CSA/USA's "On the Celiac Condition". I
believe it's $5 and their address and phone number were in a recent post.

Don <[log in to unmask]> New York City