The pathology of bronchial asthma

HL Huber, KK Koessler - Archives of Internal Medicine, 1922 - jamanetwork.com
INTRODUCTION In a clinical study of a certain type of food asthma, published nearly ten
years ago, 1 one of us expressed the conception that bronchial asthma is a manifestation of
allergy in the human, in the following concluding sentences:" In most cases of bronchial
asthma the causative factor lies in the allergic reactibility of the individual," and," The
multiplicity of asthmatogenous substances is explained by the multiplicity of proteins which
may act as anaphylactogens." The later clinical and immunologic studies of Walker, Cooke …