Children at Front Door in 1911. And Coeliac Disease.

            The Postcard

A postcard bearing no studio name that was posted in Guisborough on Thursday the 3rd. August 1911 to:

Mrs. Cropper,
14, Cleveland Street,
Middlesbrough.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Dear Niece,
So sorry I was away
from the house.
Why did you not send
me word that you were
coming and I would not
have gone.
I did not enjoy myself
much as Laurence was
so ill.
I shall be down soon.
Love to all,
Annie".

Samuel Jones Gee

So what else happened on the day the card was posted?

Well, the English medical profession lost one of its leading lights; on the 3rd. August 1911 Samuel Jones Gee (born 1839) died.  He was a physician and paediatrician.

In 1888, he published the first modern description of Coeliac disease.  He wrote:

"There is a kind of chronic indigestion which 
is met with in persons of all ages, yet is 
especially apt to affect children between 
one and five years old.  
Signs of the disease are yielded by the 
faeces: being loose, not formed, but not 
watery; more bulky than the food taken 
would seem to account for.
Pale in colour, as if devoid of bile; yeasty, 
frothy, an appearance probably due to 
fermentation; stinking, stench often very 
great, the food having undergone 
putrefaction rather than concoction".

Gee is also credited with the first English language description of the cyclical vomiting syndrome.
   

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