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Q: Pyloric Stenosis Disease (IHPS) ( Answered,   0 Comments )
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Subject: Pyloric Stenosis Disease (IHPS)
Category: Science > Biology
Asked by: saraxan-ga
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Posted: 04 Oct 2004 17:01 PDT
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Who discoverd Pyloric Stenosis?  When did they discover it?
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Subject: Re: Pyloric Stenosis Disease (IHPS)
Answered By: pinkfreud-ga on 04 Oct 2004 18:17 PDT
 
The Danish physician Harald Hirschsprung gets the credit:

"As a result of post-mortem examinations on two infants who had died
from the disease, hypertrophic pyloric stenosis was first described by
Harald Hirschsprung in 1888."

Surgical Tutor 
http://www.surgical-tutor.org.uk/default-home.htm?surgeons/ramstedt.htm

"1888
 Hirschsprung
 First description of pyloric stenosis" 
 
Timeline of Neonatology
http://www.neonatology.org/tour/timeline.html

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Google Web Search: "pyloric stenosis" "first * by"
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Google Web Search: "pyloric stenosis" hirschsprung 1888
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pinkfreud
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