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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STORM VAN LEEUWEN, Willem

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Allergic diseases; diagnosis and treatment of bronchial asthma, hay fever, and other allergic diseases.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1925.

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 with an allergen-proof chamber and showed the benefit of high altitude to asthmatics.



Subjects: ALLERGY › Asthma