history Hirschsprung disease original description by Hirschsprung

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Harald Hirschsprung;1888

[My first specimen] is a colon, but a colon of such a size that it will no doubt surprise you to learn that it comes from a child only 11 months old when it died.... Only [the] rectum was not dilated, nor indeed subject to any obstruction.

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