WAR AGAINST ASTHMA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 688, 13 June 1929, Page 7

WAR AGAINST ASTHMA

RESEARCH COUNCIL’S WORK APPEAL FOR SUFFERER’S HELP Good progress is being made by the Asthma Research Council in England in a national campaign for the scientific investigation of asthma, hay-fever, eczema, migraine and allied diseases which, it is estimated, afflict half a million people in Great Britain. A team of specialists is already at work on the subject at Guy’s Hospital in London, and patients are being carefully investigated, while methods of treatment are slowly being evolved. Grants have been made to several other hospitals iif London and medical sub-committees have been set up to inquire impartially into the claims of osteopaths, homeopaths, nature curers and others to treat asthma, no line of investigation which may give a clue to these mysterious disorders being neglected. An interesting feature of the campaign is the appeal which is being made to asthma sufferers to co-oper-ate. All sufferers and the parents of all children suffering from asthma in Great Britain and the Dominions are invited to help, not only by subscribing, but by filling in family history forms which, it is hoped, will give valuable information as to the influence of heredity in asthma and its allied disorders.

Donations and applications for family history forms should be sent to the secretary, Asthma Research Council, London Clinic, Ranelagh Road, London, S.W.I.