Beginning-5000 B.C.: Age Before History and Time
- Introduction: History of Difficult Breathing
- 2.5 million years ago: When did the first asthmatic live?
- 2.5 million years ago: The dawn of empathy
- 200,000 years ago: The dawn of caring
- 100,000-70,000 B.C.: The first physicians?
- 30,000 B.C.: The dawn of medicine
- 30,000 B.C.: The medicine man wards off black magic
- 30,000 B.C.: The birth of allergies
- 30,000 B.C.sal: Fumigations were first inhalers
- 10,000 B.C.: The first Materia Medica
- 10,000 B.C.: Asthma caused by too much phlegm?
- 10,000 B.C. - 1492: North American Indians
- 8000 B.C. Tuberculosis spreads across the world
5000-2700 B.C.: Beginning of the Ancient World
- 5000 B.C.: An Egyptians hero think about air
- 5000 B.C.: Knowledge comes to America
- 5000 B.C.-1700 A.D.: Natural remedies for asthma in America
- 5000 B.C.-1500 A.D.: The first inhalers
- 5000-2000 B.C.: Sumerian rituals prevent asthma
- 4000-2000 B.C: The birth of artificial breathing and tracheotomy
- 4000-539 B.C. Mesopotamian gods may heal you
- 4000 B.C: Inhaling herbs was a great asthma remedy
- 4004 B.C.: The beginning of Time?
- 4000-539 B.C.: First civilizations advance medicine, part 1
- 4000-539 B.C.: First civilizations advance medicine, part 2
- 4000-539 B.C.: First civilizations advance medicine, part 3
- 4000-539 B.C.: First civilizations advance medicine, part 4
- 4000-30 B.C.: 'Black Land' creates mighty civilization, part 1
- 4000-30 B.C.: 'Black Land' creates mighty civilization, part 2
- 4000-30 B.C.: 'Black Land' creates mighty civilization, part 3
- 4000-30 B.C.: 'Black Land' createsgyp mighty civilization, part 4
- 3533-2600 B.C.: Birth of rational/ civilized medicine
- 3000 B.C.: Baru predicts your future
- 3000-900 B.C.: Asthmatic boy in Babylon
- 2600 B.C: Egyptian gods educate priests about medicine
- 2600 B.C: Egyptian medicine evolves over time
- 2600 B.C.: Hermetic Books improve image of medicine in Egypt
- 2600 B.C. Hermetic books allow medicine to flourish in Egypt
- 2600 B.C.: The Egyptian order of priest/ physicians
- 2600 B.C.: Egyptian temples expand scope of medicine
- 2600 B.C.: Egyptian medicine becomes specialized
- 2600 B.C.: Egyptian diagnosis and treatment
- 2600 B.C.: Egyptian priests/ Physician Treats Asthma
- 2838 B.C.: Chinese discover world's best asthma remedy
- 2700 B.C.: Hermetic Books gave priests legal grounds to practice medicine
- 2700 B.C.: Imhotep invents rational medicine
- 2697 B.C.: Ancient China: The oldest description of asthma (sort of)
- 2460 B.C.: First description of allergies
- 2600 B.C. to 30 A.D.: Greek, Roman gods will cure your asthma
- 2600 B.C. to 1200 A.D.: Mayan may cure your asthma
- 2000 B.C.: Assyrian physicians will treat your dyspnea
- 2500-539 B.C.: Chaldeans create system of medicine
- 2000 B.C.: Chaldeans introduce physicians to Babylon
- 2000 B.C. to 1538 A.D.: Civilization arrives in Mesoamerica
- 2000-539 B.C.: Babylon had help giving birth to Medicine
- 2000-539 B.C.: Assyro-Babylonian Physicians
- 2000-539 B.C.: Babylonians first to describe lung disease
- 1700 B.C.: Hebrew Bible influences medicine
- 1700 B.C. Hebrew Health and Healing
- 1500 B.C.: Asthma in Ancien Egypt: the Ebers Papyri
- 1550 B.C.: Moses preaches good hygiene
- 1194-800 B.C. Medicine in Ancient Greece
- 950 B.C.: Solomon will cure your asthma
- 1200 B.C.: Asthmatic Hebrew girl
- 870 B.C.: First description of artificial resuscitation
- 800 B.C.: The beginning of Western Medicine
- 800 B.C: Homer was first to use the term asthma
- 800 B.C.: The Greeks transform medicine
- 800 B.C: Asclepius will heal your asthma, part 1
- 800 B.C Asclepius will heal your asthma, part 2
- 800-400 B.C.: Greeks define tracheotomy
- 760-370 B.C.: Hippocrates redefines medicine
- 628-330 B.C.: Medicine among the early Persians
- 639-322 B.C.: Greek medicine was key
- 600-476 B.C Unhappy dead Roman men caused diseases
- 500 B.C.: Pythagoras introduces Greece to philosophy
- 500 B.C.: The Pythagorean Theory of Opposites
- 400 B.C.: Hippocrates and the four humors
- 400 B.C.: The Hippocratic Oath
- 400 B.C.: How did Hippocrates assess his patients
- 400 B.C.: How did Hippocrates determine diagnosis and prognosis?
- 400 B.C.: What remedies did Hippocrates prefer?
- 400 B.C.: Why was Hippocrates dubbed 'the father of medicine?'
- 400 B.C.: What did Hippocrates think about asthma?
- 400 B.C.: Did Hippocrates recognize allergies?
- 400 B.C.: Hippocrates describes pneumothorax
- 400 B.C.: Hippocrates alludes to heart failure
- 400 B.C: Hippocrates defines pneumonia
- 400 B.C.: Tuberculosis given its first name
- 400 B.C.: The Hippocratic Inhaler
- 400 B.C.: Diagnosing lung diseases with succussion
- 400 B.C.-200 A.D.: A history of 'vital air'
- 400-1743: The first use of the term influenza
- 400 B.C.-1881: Steam inhalers
- 400 B.C-1600 A.D..: Pneumonia defined as a disease
- 370 B.C.: The dogmatic school of medicine
- 331 B.C- 619 A.D..: The School of Alexandria
- 225 - 200 B.C. Dogmatism is challenged
- 124 B.C.: The Methodist school of medicine
- 106-48 B.C.: Greek medicine migrates to Rome
- 100 B.C.: The beginning of the decline of wisdom
- 9 B.C.: The first mouth to mouth respirations
- 1 A.D.: The first Dry Powdered Inhalers
- 1-650 A.D.: A Jewish girl with asthma
- 1-1619 A.D.: Jews, Arabs and Latins practice tracheotomies (and mouth to mouth breathing)
- 2nd century A.D.: Medical profession starts to decline
- 4 B.C.-65: Seneca learned to survive asthma
- 62.: Seneca the asthma philosopher
- 62: Seneca's view of life helped him cope with asthma
- 25 BC-50: Celcus spearheads quest to define asthma
- 50-200: The four schools of medicine
- 100: Aretaeus defines asthma
- 100: Aretaeus assesses the asthmatic
- 100: Asthma in ancient India
- 100 A.D.: Pipes made inhaling herbal remedies easy
- 115-219: The Chinese Sage of Medicine
- 124-200: Roman physicians describe tracheotomies
- 200: Galen becomes world's first pathologist
- 200: Galen becomes world's greatest physician
- 200: Galen wonders what causes asthma
- 206-220.: Quack Chinese doctors kill people
- 320-400: Oribasius preserves Galen's work
- 476.: The fall of Rome
- 476-1543: The dark ages of medicine
- 476-1543: Medicine survives the dark ages of medicine
- 500: Medicine in ancient Japan
- 502-575: Aetius uses painful asthma remedy
- 570-1070: Arabs save medicine
- 750-48: Medicine migrates to Rome
- 625-690: Paulus Aegineta describes asthma
- 625-690: Paulus Aegineta writes first history of asthma
- 625-690: What did the ancients think of colds and allergies?
- 625-690: What did the ancients know about the pulmonary system?
- 625-690: What did the ancients know of the cardiovascular system?
- 625-690: Would nausea cure your asthma
- 642: Stephanus: The last Bryzantine physician
- 802--1300 A.D..: The School of Salerno
- 865-925: Rhazes describes allergies
- 900-1300: The Soporific Sponge
- 960 A.D.: Haly Abbas writes mammoth book
- 980-1037: Avicenna: The Prince of Physicians
- 980-1037: Avicenna shared his wisdom about asthma
- 1000: The King's Evil
- 1070-1162: Avenzoar mentions the Bezoar Stones
- 1095: Crusaders return medicine to Europe
- 1138 -1204 A.D.: Maimonides writes asthma book
- 1200: John Gaddesden describes asthma prognosis
- 1200-1600: Asthma in ancient Korea
- 1268: Bacon discovers carbon dioxide
- 1281-1348: Xi defines asthma for China
- 1316: Mundinus publishes book of anatomy
- 1400-1900: Botanic Physicians will cure your asthma
- 1453: The world wakes up to science
- 1483: The King uses his allergies to kill Lord Hastings
- 1492: Columbus discovers tobacco
- 1500: The quest for the philosopher's stone
- 1500-1900: Physicians experiment with protecting the airway
- 1519: Cortes, Spaniards destroy American culture
- 1530: The bellows of Paracelsus provide first mechanical breaths
- 1543: Vesalius sparks end to dark ages of medicine
- 1553: Servetus discovers circulation, sort of
- 1576: Cardano finds new remedy for asthma?
- 1600s: Asthma could get you absolved from crimes
- 1600s: Nervous theory introduced to medical community
- 1600-1900: Botanic medicine becomes a craze, part 1
- 1600-1900: Botanic medicine becomes a craze, part 2
- 1600-1900: Botanic medicine becomes a craze, part 3
- 1600-1900: Botanic medicine becomes a craze, part 4
- 1600-1900: Native American Fumigations
- 1600-1800: Physicians study pneumonia
- 1600-1700: Some abhorent remedies for asthma
- 1628: William Harvey discovers circulation, and proves it
- 1636: Boyle learn benefits of artificial breathing
- 1645: Van Helmont narrows asthma definition
- 1645: Van Helmont learns about air
- 1654: Bennet describes the inhaler
- 1658: Swammerdam discovers Red Blood Cells
- 1661: Malpighi completes Harvey's work
- 1664: Sylvius improves medical image
- 1665: Hook discovers purpose of respiration
- 1666: Dr. Sydenham expands medical wisdom
- 1666: Dr. Sydenham will cure your asthma
- 1668: Leeuwenhoick completes Harvey's work
- 1668: Mayow comes close to discovering oxygen
- 1672: Vieussens discovers difference between asthma and cardiac asthma
- 1675: Willis narrows asthma definition
- 1679: The term emphysema is coined
- 1698: Floyer redefines asthma, upholds supernatural
- 1698: Floyer's asthma symptoms, triggers, treatment
- 1699: Asthma still considered a symptom
- 1700: Ramazzini describes occupational asthma
- 1700: Ramazzini was ahead of his time
- 1700: Ramazzini recommends cures occupational asthma
- 1700-1900: 'The asthmatic pants into old age'
- 1717: Floyer establishes spasmotic theory of asthma
- 1722: William Cullen writes about asthma
- 1733: The English Malady: Modern living causes asthma
- 1738: The Bernoulli Principle
- 1743: Hales invents first mechanical ventilator
- 1750: Purpose of air, breathing is learned
- 1750-1950: Methods of Manual Resuscitation
- 1750-1850: Tuberculosis wreaks havoc
- 1757: Boerhaave improves image of medicine
- 1757: Boerhaave lectures about asthma
- 1757: Joseph Black discovers carbon dioxide
- 1759: Hill recommends honey for consumption
- 1761: Avenbrugger introduces chest percussion to medical profession
- 1664: Scneider discovers truth about phlegm
- 1767: Dr. Phillip Stern writes book for asthmatics
- 1768: Asthma classified as a disease
- 1768: Bosier de Sauvages classifies asthma
- 1769: John Millar writes about asthma
- 1769: Buchan and Smellie's self help book
- 1769: Hill's asthma panacea is honey
- 1769: Dr. Rush writes about asthma in children
- 1772: Oxygen is discovered
- 1772-1832: Napolian's army surgeon recommended leaches for asthma
- 1772: Heberden writes about asthma
- 1772: Heberden describe cardiac asthma
- 1774: Birth of Royal Society
- 1750-1950: Methods of Manual Resuscitation
- 1774: Humane Society: Recommended methods for reanimation
- 1774-1829: Humane Society used intubation, bellows
- 1776: The double chambered bellows of Dr. John Hunter
- 1876: The first Dry Powdered Inhalers
- 1778: John Mudge invents the inhaler
- 1778: The Mudge Patented Pewter Inhaler
- 1700-1970: Evolution of intubation
- 1783: The first experiments using oxygen
- 1784: Emphysema is further defined
- 1785: Withering recommends fox-glove for asthma
- 1786: Thomas Withers and his "Treaties on Asthma"
- 1790: Robert Bree defends old asthma theories
- 1792: Curry confirms importance of breathing during artificial during resuscitation
- 1792: The first attempts at neonatal resuscitation
- 1793: Ryan likes cold baths for asthma
- 1798: Bree's Symptoms of Asthma
- 1798: Bree's asthma remedies
- 1798: Robert Bree's 4 Species of Asthma
1800-1900: The Scientific Revolution
- 1800-1900: The scientific revolution and the age of progress
- 1800-1900: Oxygen used to treat asthma
- 1800-1900: Thomsonian remedies for asthma
- 1820-1930: The new "captain of men and death
- 1800-1900: Birth of sanatorium for consumption
- 1800-1920: Oxygen cylinders and chambers
- 1800-2012: Evolution of back-door bronchodilator
- 1800-1900: Eleven asthma theories
- 1800: Lipscomb tries to discredit Bree's asthma theories
- 1800: Albrecht von Haller studies respiration
- 1802: Heberden first physician to recognize hay fever
- 1802: James Anderson discovers asthma cigarettes
- 1805: American Indians smoked asthma weed
- 1808: Reisseissen discovers smooth muscles along air passages
- 1808: Corvisart re-introduces chest percussion to medicine
- 1811: Frank insists asthma is periodic
- 1813: Asthma remedy of Peter Smith, Root and Herb Doctor
- 1815: Parry supports bronchitic theory of asthma
- 1815: Parry Shares his wisdom of asthma
- 1816: Laennec invents the stethoscope
- 1818: Rostan claims asthma is cardiac, not nervous
- 1818: Erasmus Darwin: The father of psychosomatic medicine
- 1819: Laennec is first to describe lung sounds
- 1819: Laennec accurately groups emphysema and bronchitis
- 1819: Laennec's treatment for emphysema and bronchitis
- 1819: Laennec describes causes of consumption
- 1819: Laennec defines pneumonia
- 1819: Laennec uses stethoscope to redefine asthma
- 1819: Laennec remedies for consumption
- 1819: Laennec says consumption can be cured
- 1819: Bostock defines hay fever for medical community
- 1820-1850: Race to define asthma
- 1820-1900: Best remedy for hay-fever may be a holiday
- 1823: Hunter shares native American asthma remedies
- 1823: Native American sweat houses, an early panacea
- 1833: Atropine Discovered as active ingredient in asthma cigarettes
- 1823: More native American asthma remedies
- 1830-1836: Kropp and Hirsch still think asthma is croup
- 1830-1900: Early ventilators and intubation devices
- 1835: Lefevre questions nervous theory of asthma
- 1835: Ramadge questions that Dr. Bree had asthma?
- 1835: Ramadge renews interest in nervous asthma
- 1835: Ramadge's inhaling tube for consumption and asthma
- 1836: The beginning of pressure therapy and Tabarie's Sphere
- 1837: The botanic asthma remedy of Carter and/or Mathes
- 1837: Stokes defines chronic bronchitis
- 1840: Dr. Williams proves spasmotic theory of asthma
- 1840-1890: Physicians learn how oxygen works in the body
- 1840-1903: Open air treatment for consumption
- 1841: Romberg verifies nervous theory of asthma
- 1842: Longet proves nervous theory of asthma
- 1843: Watson lectures on principles and practice of physic
- 1844: Dr. Andral writes about asthma
- 1847 definition: Asthma the opposite of consumption
- 1848: Rudolf von Kolliker strengthens convulsive theory of asthma
- 1848: The Chambers dry powdered inhaler
- 1849: Great inventors at the dawn of modern medicine
- 1850: Todd says asthma disease of mind
- 1851-1913: The history of asthma sputum (7/24/17)
- 1851: Reid and Bergson verify spasmotic theory of asthma
- 1851: Bergson describes typical asthma attack
- 1851: Bergson classifies asthma as purely nervous
- 1851-1913: The history of asthma sputum
- 1852: Humane Society recommends new methods of manual breathing
- 1853: Gairdner defends spasmotic theory of asthma
- 1854: M. Priory fine tunes stethoscope and percussion
- 1854: Dr. Wintrich almost disproves spasmotic theory of asthma
- 1855: Duchenne proves diaphragmatic theory of asthma
- 1856: Sales-Giron invents first nebulizer
- 1858-1929: History of nebulizers
- 1859: Benvenisti writes opinion about asthma
- 1859: Mathieu's Nephogene
- 1860: Villemin's asthma theories ignored
- 1860: Dr. Salter, the famous asthma doctor
- 1860: Salter: Why do young people outgrow asthma?
- 1860: Salter proved nervous theory of asthma
- 1860: Salter disproves ancient asthma theories
- 1860: Dr. Salter's Asthma Features
- 1860: Dr. Salter's asthma causes and triggers
- 1860: Dr. Salter's asthma signs and symptoms
- 1860: Salter's Consequences of asthma
- 1860: Salter's Asthma Remedies
- 1860: Salter's prognosis for asthmatics
- 1860: Dr. Salter's Varieties of Asthma
- 1861: Did Martin Van Buren Die of Asthma?
- 1864: Alfred Newton's Dry Powdered Inhaler
- 1865: Mackenzie specializes in diseases of throat and chest
- 1865?: Dr. Nelson's inhaler
- 1865: Clarks spray Producer
- 1865: Bamberger supports diaphragmatic theory of asthma
- 1865: Dr. See supports diaphragmatic theory of asthma
- 1866: Catologue of stethoscopes
- 1867: The four best nebulizers
- 1867: Abbots says hay fever often confused as something else
- 1869: Lewin's Inhaler
- 1870-1900: Pneumatic Chambers
- 1870-1900: The Pneumatometer
- 1870-1900: The Pneumatometer (Part II)
- 1870: Bert's experiments help anyone with respiratory ailments
- 1870: The Eclectic Inhaler
- 1870: Briante's Indian methods of healing asthma and bronchitis
- 1870: Briante's remedies for common respiratory ailments
- 1870: Biermer proves spasmotic theory once and for all
- 1871: Walshe creates new asthma theory
- 1871-1900: Pneumatometers (especially Walldenburg's) better than Spirometers?
- 1872: George Catlin describes Native American Respiratory Therapists
- 1872: Wyman recommends mountainous hay fever vacations
- 1873: The Blackley experiments, part 1
- 1873: The Blackley experiments, part II
- 1873: The Blackley experiments, part III
- 1873: The Blackley Experiments, part IV
- 1873: Lebert creates new asthma theory
- 1873: Berkart says asthma is merely a symptom
- 1873: The Trendelenburg position is born (3/13/17)
- 1874: Solis Cohen recommends tracheotomies for croup
- 1875: Bleeding STILL recommended to cure your asthma
- 1876: Colorado cures hay fever
- 1876: Dr. Beard: Remedies for hay fever
- 1876: The first modern Dry Powdered Inhalers (3/3/17)
- 1876: Many names for hay-fever
- 1876: Dr. Beard: Nervous theory of hay fever (5/5/17)
- 1878-1885: Asthma no longer a confused term (5/10/17)
- 1878: Thorowgood supports Salter's asthma theories (5/8/17)
- 1879: Asthma cigarettes become a craze
- 1879: Berkart describes turning point in asthma history (5/10/17)
- 1881: Recipes for inhaled medicine
- 1885: Holzapple prescribes oxygen for pneumonia
- 1885: Recommendation for inhaling medicine (3/22/17)
- 1887: The infamous Dr. Gee
- 1888: Rumbold describes hay fever as 'pleuritic rhinitis' (2/24/17)
- 1889: Mackenzie defines hay fever
- 1889: The Carbolic Smoke Ball (3/20/17)
- 1889: William Osler: The father of modern medicine (5/12/17)
- 1889: Osler defines asthma (5/15/17)
- 1889: Osler's asthma remedies (5/17/17)
- 1890: Blodgett first to recommend continuous oxygen
- 1894: Alabone's compressed air inhaler (3/24/17)
- 1896: The ideal pulmonary inspirator (3/15/17)
- 1898: Matas's Apparatus for Artificial Respiration (3/17/17)
- 1898: Physicians search for asthma remedies (5/17/17)
- 1898: A doctor's humble request for help (5/24/17)
- 1898: An interesting remedy for hay fever (7/3/17)
- 1898: Yearning for help for asthma patient (7/5/17)
- 1898: Dr. Hollopeter's Asthma Remedy (7/7/17)
- 1898: Dr. Hollopeter: What Causes Asthma? (7/10/17)
- 1900: Asthma cigarettes (advertisement)
- 1900: Park-Davis Glaseptic Nebulizer
- 1900: The discovery of epinephrine
- 1900-2010: The evolution of rescue medicine
- 1901-1933: How does epinephrine work? (4/16/16)
- 1901-1920: Hay fever becomes allergy
- 1901: National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives
- 1901: Treatment for Asthma (7/12/17)
- 1904: Wompole's Hypno-Bromic Comp will cure your asthma (5/19/17)
- 1904: The first remedy for hay fever is Pollantin (7/14/17)
- 1907: Dr. James Sawyer's Asthma Powder (3/31/17)
- 1907: The first mechanical ventilator: The Pulmotor
- 1908: The Bratt's Resuscitator (4/21/17)
- 1909: Pituitrin tried for asthma and hay fever (7/17/17)
- 1910-1950: Antihistamines to treat allergies (7/19/17)
- 1910: Hiram Maxim Pipe of Peace
- 1910: Early PEP and Insentive Spirometers (4/21/17)
- 1910: Meltzer links asthma with allergies (8/11/1
- 1910-1920: The oxygen revolution (4/24/17)
- 1910-1930: Early resuscitators were over-hyped (6/12/17)
- 1910-1950: Desensitization to treat allergies (in draft)
- 1912-2001: Dr. Martin Wright
- 1913: Speculation about asthma continues (7/21/17)
- 1913: Adam Toxaemic Theory of Asthma (7/26/17)
- 1913: Adam: Two types of chronic asthmatics (7/28/17)
- 1913: Adam: Abnormalities associated with asthma (7/31/17)
- 1913: Adam: A perfect description of an asthma attack (8/2/17)
- 1913: Adam: Cauterize your nose, cure your asthma (8/4/17)
- 1917: Meltzer's pharyngeal Insufflation Apparatus (4/28/17)
- 1918: A killer worse than a war (5/30/17)
- 1918: Rackermann redefines asthma
- 1920: The Lungmotor (a resuscitation device) (6/1/17)
- 1920s and 30s: Memories from National Jewish
- 1920-1940: The birth of the RT profession (5/26/17)
- 1920-1980: Pneumonia is finally tackled
- 1920-1980: The evolution of oxygen delivery devices (6/7/17)
- 1921: The Children's Ward at National Jewish Hospital
- 1927: Harold Beck: My Life With Asthma (4/10/17)
- 1929: The Drinker Respirator (6/14/17)
- 1930: Pneumostat, the first electric nebulizer
- 1930s: Spiess-Drager (Apneu) Nebulizer and Inhalatoriums
- 1930's: Asthma Nefrin and the Devilbiss Nebulizer (4/5/17)
- 1931: The Emerson Respirator (6/16/17)
- 1932: The first use of the term 'Aerosol' (4/12/17)
- 1937-80: The evolution of mechanical ventilation (6/19/17)
- 1940's: Dr. M. Murray Peshkin, Parentectomy, and the rise of the asthma institution
- 1940s: Stories from National Jewish Health
- 1940s: The Collision Nebulizer (4/14/17)
- 1940s: Why did asthma morbidity and mortality increase (8/9/17)
- 1940-1960: The RT Profession Matures (5/29/17)
- 1940-1970: The decline and return of tuberculosis (6/23/17)
- 1940: Asthma death rate begins a gradual rise (8/4/17)
- 1948: First study of intermittent positive pressure breathing (6/26/17)
- 1949-1969: The National Foundation for Asthmatic Children (
- 1950s: The Discovery of Steroids
- 1950: The decline of asthma cigarettes
- 1950s: Steroids for Asthma
- 1950: Life for polio victims inside an iron lung (6/26/17)
- 1950s: The first peak flow meter (8/14/17)
- 1950: Dr. Forrest Bird
- 1951: Alexander defines asthma as one of the seven psychosomatic disorders
- 1954: The DeVilbiss Pocket Nebulizer (4/17/17)
- 1957: The invention of the rescue inhaler
- 1959: Nebu-Halent Inhaler
- 1960-1990: The asthma institution (8/18/17)
- 1960-2012: Evolution of Asthma Controller Medicine
- 1960s: Spike in asthma death rate earns worldwide attention (8/7/17)
- 1960s: Did rescue medicine cause a spike in asthma deaths? (8/16/17)
- 1955-1985: The IPPB Revolution (6/9/17)
- 1968: Concerns about rescue inhalers lead to improved improved safety regulations (9/4/17)
- 1970s: Steroids for Asthma: Part II
- 1978: Tedral and Brondecon
- 1980s: The First Corticosteroid Inhalers
- 1981: Sus-Phrin: The greatest asthma medicine ever
- 1990s: The Booming Steroid Inhaler Market (in draft)
- 1991: Study finds albuterol works just as well as epinephrine
- 2010: Few people die of asthma, but a few is still too many
Further reading:
- The rise and fall of smoking for asthma (By Mark Jackson)
- Asthma History: Part II Introduction (in draft)
- Inhalatorium.com
Editing: (DON'T BOTHER READING)
Allergies are much older than 30,000 years, since they are seen in other mammals. Put them before the dawn of empathy. Yours is a really nice approach to breathing history
ReplyDeleteAdd Al Barach in there.