An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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A treatise of the asthma.

London: R. Wilkins, 1698.

Floyer provided the first clear descriptions of cases of bronchial asthma. Floyer himself suffered from asthma for over 30 years. He recognized the influence of heredity in asthma. The above includes (p. 239) an important early account of emphysema, from a post mortem on a broken-winded horse.



Subjects: ALLERGY › Asthma, GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS, GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS › Asthma, Hereditary Factors in , PULMONOLOGY, RESPIRATION › Respiratory Diseases, VETERINARY MEDICINE
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