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Samuel Wilks

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English physician at Guy's Hospital, London, who in 1859 was the first to use the term ulcerative colitis, describing the inflammatory bowel condition found at the autopsy of a patient who had died of bloody diarrhea and abdominal pain.

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1824 1
Death Year
1911 1
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1. Hektoen International: Sir Samuel Wilks (1824-1911)
Hektoen International (A Journal of Medical Humanities)Wilks biography, 1859 case
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Under the name of ulcerative colitis he described in 1859 the inflammation of the distal part of the ileum and the colon found at the autopsy of Isabella Banks, who died after a short illness of bloody diarrhea and abdominal pain.
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1. Hektoen International: Sir Samuel Wilks (1824-1911)
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