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A brief history of ulcerative colitis

Parnita Kesar South Carolina, United States   Anatomy of the large intestine in ancient Chinese medicine, 1537. Wellcome Collection. The symptoms of ulcerative colitis have been documented since the eighteenth century. From 1745, there is evidence that Prince Charles, the Young Pretender to the English crown, had symptoms consistent with the condition we now know […]