Crown? S disease, a disease associated with a large group of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), is named after the American gastroenterologist, Dr. Burrill B. Crohn. Crohn's disease initially became known as a medical institution when Dr. Kron, Dr. Leon Ginsburg and Dr. Gordon D. Oppenheimer turned to her in 1932. The first description of this condition was previously made by the Italian doctor Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771) in 1769, when he diagnosed a young man with chronic, debilitating illness and diarrhea.
Sequential cases were reported in 1898 by John Berg and the Polish surgeon Anthony Lesniowski in 1904. In 1913, Scottish physician T. Kennedy Dalziel, at a meeting of the British Medical Association, described nine cases in which patients suffered from intestinal obstruction. A careful examination of the pressurized bowel clearly revealed the transmural infection characteristic of this disease. Abdominal pain, fever, diarrhea and weight loss were observed in most patients, especially among young people, in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1923, surgeons at the Mt Sinai Hospital in New York identified 12 patients with similar symptoms. Dr. Burrill B. Crohn, in 1930, pointed to similar results in two patients whom he treated.
On May 13, 1932, Dr. Kron and his colleagues Oppenheimer and Ginzburg presented a report? Terminal Ileitis?, Describing the features of Crohn? S disease of the American Medical Association. This was published later this year as a landmark article in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled "Regional Ileitis: Pathological and Chronic Essence." The JAMA article was published at a time when the medical community was interested in new findings. The finds were given considerable recognition, while Dalziel’s article in the British Medical Journal of 1913 was not. It is thanks to the alphabet, and not the contribution, that the name Crohn appeared as the first author. This was the first time when the condition was reported in a widely read journal, and the disease became known as Crohn's disease.
