1698 FLOYER, Sir John (1649 – 1734)
A treatise of the asthma.
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 impor…
GMN 3166 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4120
1746 WATSON, Sir William (1715 – 1787)
An account of what appeared on opening the body of an asthmatic person.
Probably the earliest comprehensive clinical and pathological account of emphysema.
GMN 3166.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4122
1769 MILLAR, John (1733 – 1805)
Observations on the asthma and on the hooping cough.
Includes Millar’s original description of laryngismus stridulus (“Millar’s asthma”).
GMN 3167 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4124
1797 BREE, Robert (1759 – 1839)
A practical inquiry into disordered respiration, distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes, and indications of cure,
Bree "embodied the numerous experiments in his own case, gave a more full and complete view of asthma and dyspnœa than had hitherto appeared, and laid down some important therapeutic rules, the practical value of whic…
GMN 11491 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13690
1860 SALTER, Henry Hyde (1823 – 1871)
On asthma: its pathology and treatment.
The best work on asthma to appear during the 19th century. Salter, who had suffered from asthma from childhood, may be considered the first modern student of the condition. He called special attention to asthma from a…
GMN 2586 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4136
1873 LIVEING, Edward (1832 – 1919)
On megrim, sick-headache, and some allied disorders.
Liveing’s classic account of migraine showed the close association of this condition with tetany, asthma, and false angina pectoris, with epilepsy, and the alternation of all these conditions in the same subject or th…
GMN 2587 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/409
1873 BLACKLEY, Charles Harrison (1820 – 1900)
Experimental researches on the causes and nature of catarrhus aestivus.
Blackley showed that pollen can produce hay fever in both the asthmatic and catarrhal forms; he also showed that skin reactions were evoked in sensitive persons.
GMN 2588 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4390
1907 NOWOTNY, Franz (1872 – 1925)
Bronchoskopie und bronchoskopische Behandlung von Bronchialasthma.
Introduction of therapeutic bronchoscopy, for treatment of asthma.
GMN 3186 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4211
1910 MELTZER, Samuel James (1851 – 1920)
Bronchial asthma as a phenomenon of anaphylaxis.
The work of Auer and Lewis (see No. 2600) led Meitzer to the conclusion that bronchial asthma was due to anaphylaxis, although he did not appreciate that not all cases of asthma were so caused.
GMN 2600.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2981
1922 HIRSCH, Samson Raphael (1890 – 1960)
Klinische und experimentelle Beitrag zur krampflösenden Wirkung der Purinderivate.
Hirsch established the value of theophylline in the management of asthma.
GMN 3197.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4278
1925 STORM VAN LEEUWEN, Willem (1882 – 1933)
Allergic diseases; diagnosis and treatment of bronchial asthma, hay fever, and other allergic diseases.
In his important studies of asthma, Storm van Leeuwen demonstrated that in the great majority of patients allergens are the cause of the condition and also that patients are sensitive to mold spores. He experimented w…
GMN 2603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3028
1929 CAMPS, Percy William Leopold (1877 – 1956)
A note on the inhalation treatment of asthma.
First use of adrenaline by the respiratory route for the treatment of bronchial asthma.
GMN 3202.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4303
1929 SWANSON, Edward E.
The action of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine and epinephrine on the bronchioles.
Swanson showed that just 0.01 mg. of epinephrine was as vasconstrictive as 2 mg. of ephedrine and 4 mg. of pseudoephedrine. He also showed that all three of these drugs have bronchodilator properties, but epinephrine …
GMN 14192 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16508
1963 MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); MUNTNER, Suessman Alexander (1897 – 1973)
The medical writings of Moses Maimonides. Treatise on asthma.
GMN 6495.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8023
2002 –2007 MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); MCVAUGH, Michael Rogers (1938 – ); BOS, Gerrit
Maimonides on asthma: a parallel Arabic-English text, edited, translated and annotated by Gerrit Bos. Maimonides on asthma, Vol. 2: Critical editions of medieval Hebrew and Latin translations by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.
GMN 8245 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10421
