National Celiac Disease Awareness Day Timeline

​1952

​Researchers celebrate a breakthrough

Scientists in Birmingham, England, link celiac disease with gluten for the first time.

​1908

Celiac and children

​​American physician, Christian Herter, publishes a book on children afflicted with what he dubs "intestinal infantilism."

​AD 100

​Celiac disease is diagnosed

Greek physician, Aretaeus, gives one of the first descriptions of celiac disease, which the doctor calls," koiliakos," an abdominal infection.