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Jul 2, 2018 · In the 19th century, hay fever was known as an “aristocratic disease”. By the 1860s, “hay fever” and “hay asthma” had become widely accepted terms in the medical community. The condition was, however, almost exclusively associated with the elite.
- Rachel Dinning
History. The first accurate description is from the 10th century physician Rhazes. Pollen was identified as the cause in 1859 by Charles Blackley. In 1906 the mechanism was determined by Clemens von Pirquet. The link with hay came about due to an early (and incorrect) theory that the symptoms were brought about by the smell of new hay.
- Genetic and environmental factors
- Stuffy itchy nose, sneezing, red, itchy, and watery eyes, swelling around the eyes, itchy ears
- 20 to 40 years old
Dec 3, 2018 · In 1819, John Bostock wrote a detailed description of hay fever. Over the following decades, Charles Harrison Blackley identified pollen as the cause, however no effective treatments were found...
- Jon Heggie
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Jun 30, 2014 · Hay fever, an allergy to pollen, sounds like an ancient, rural name for a long-established malady. But, in fact, two centuries ago nobody had heard of it. It took the efforts of one man,...
What do we know? The major changes relevant to hygiene i.e. clean water and helminth eradication, started in 1850 and were established in the major cities of the USA and Europe by 1920. The relevance of pollen to hay-fever was first defined in 1870, and by 1900 the disease was common among the “leisured classes”.
- Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills
- 10.1016/j.jaci.2015.03.048
- 2015
- 2015/07
Mar 16, 2017 · The First Description of Allergies Was Published On This Day in 1844. John Bostock was a British doctor suffering from what he called “summer catarrh” Kat Eschner. March 16, 2017. Although it's...
On 16 March 1819 Bostock presented an interesting case to the Medical and Chirurgical Society: ‘Case of a periodical affection of the eyes and chest’, the first recorded description of what he later called ‘catarrhus aestivus’ or summer catarrh, and which soon became known as hay fever.
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