Aretaeus the Cappadocian
“On the Coeliac Affection”
•Symptoms/Signs
•“Patients have eructations, flatulence and heavy pains of the stomach”
•“They are emaciated and atrophied, pale, feeble, incapable of performing any of their accustomed work”
•“The stomach labors in digestion when diarrhea, consisting of undigested food in a fluid state, seizes the patient”
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