wombat_socho

Celiac disease is simplely a matter of diagnosis. It was really pretty unknown in the states before the 1960's - it was called Tropical sprue, and they thought a bland diet of bannanas and such helped it.

Prior to that - kids just 'failed to thrive' when they were weaned, and people who like me got sick at adulthood were thought to have paracites or tumors or whatnot.