 Aretaeus of Cappadocia, living in the second century in the same area, recorded a malabsorptive syndrome with chronic diarrhoea, causing a debilitation of the whole body.His "Cœliac Affection" ("coeliac" from Greek κοιλιακός "koiliakos", "abdominal") gained the attention of Western medicine when Francis Adams presented a translation of Aretaeus's work at the Sydenham Society in 1856.The patient described in Aretaeus' work had stomach pain and was atrophied, pale, feeble and incapable of work.