Abstract
Most of us are fascinated with "the inside stories" of prominent people in medicine and science, as in all other fields. This mini-monograph relates in semiautobiographical fashion the early life of a physician whose name will live forever in the annals of medical history. Dr Burrill B. Crohn (1884-1983), in fact, did not discover Crohn's disease. This entity probably had been described by the Scotsman Dalziel in 1913, and, before him, the noted British physician Samuel Fenwick (1821-1902) had published the description of a patient with very comparable findings. Fenwick also may have been preceded by others in earlier centuries (eg, "the iliac passion"). To some, this entity might well have been called "CGO disease" to acknowledge the important contributions of Leon Ginzburg and Gordon Oppenheimer as well as Burrill Crohn. Whatever the circumstances, this entity has been given the eponym Crohn's disease, and to the credit of Crohn, Ginzburg,
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