“…Wells (1952), describing cases of regional colitis characterized by fibrosis, non-caseating tubercles, and multinucleated giant cells, called the condition 'Crohn's disease of the colon'. Because this eponymous title conveys a much fuller meaning than any other term previously employed it has become justly popular with British surgeons and pathologists, and is now an accepted part of our terminology (Dukes and Lockhart-Mummery, 1957;Brooke, 1959;Watkinson, Thompson, and Goligher, 1960;Lockhart-Mummery and Morson, 1960;Nevin, 1961).…”