“…Bennett et al (1932) found symptoms beginning in childhood in 12 out of 15 cases of idiopathic steatorrhoea; six of these had had some form of diarrhoea or dysentery in infancy. Moore et al (1936) thought the history probably dated from childhood in 6 out of 10 cases of adult steatorrhoea. Bennett and Hardwick (1940) thought that many cases of " non-tropical sprue " were examples of coeliac disease which had escaped recognition in childhood.…”