Laxatives! What Your Gastroenterologist Won't Tell You!
IBS can have mental causes which are often neglected by physicians who prefer medicamentous therapy
. A successful therapy for IBS should include both, mental aspects and a healthy diet. Crohn?s disease, a disease belonging to the larger group of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), is named after an American gastroenterologist, Dr. Burrill B. Crohn. Crohn's disease initially came to be known as a medical entity when it was referred to by Dr. Crohn, Dr. Leon Ginzburg, and Dr. Gordon D. Oppenheimer in 1932. The first description of this condition was earlier made by the Italian physician Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682?1771) in 1769, when he diagnosed a young man with a chronic, debilitating illness and diarrhea.
Laxatives! What Your Gastroenterologist Won't Tell You!