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Depends on what your Dr. calls "discovered". Its generally accepted that
celiac disease was defined by Samuel Gee in 1888.

At 12:39 AM 6/10/95 -0400, [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.

Bernie Mansbach