ASTHMA RESEARCH
AN ENGLISH LEAGUE Sufferers from asthma have combined in England to form an Asthma Research Council pledged to the pursuit of knowledge and remedies for this painful disease. There are said to be 200,000 asthmatics in Great Britain, and the _ cases of many of them, evinced in 500 letters that lave been received at the headquarters of the council, are pathetic in the extreme. In one a victim, “having no further hope or interest in life,” offered his body freely for research. The president, the Earl of Limerick, unable to preside owing to an attack of asthma, wrote; “For more than five years I have been imprisoned by asthma, for any walking makes me pant for breath. “Although a great sufferer lam still full of life. I enjoy a laugh with the best, then I choke and have to apply my palliative, which gets me ready for another joke.” This letter was read by Lord Greenway, chairman of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, who has been cured of asthma. To the audience the subject of immediate palliatives proved of more interest than ultimate eradication, and one suggestion was the establishment of a club room where asthmatics could meet to compare treatments.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 243, 4 January 1928, Page 13
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202ASTHMA RESEARCH Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 243, 4 January 1928, Page 13
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