Elements of the history of our present concepts of anaphylaxis, hay fever and asthma

Chemokines and their receptors as potential targets for the treatment of asthma

“…The word ‘asthma’ originates from the Greek word ‘aazein’, meaning panting and was clinically described as early as 500 BC in the Corpus Hippocraticum. However, asthma was not considered an inflammatory condition until the early twentieth century ( Huber and Koessler, 1922 ; Becker, 1999 ).…”

100 years of ‘Allergy’: can von Pirquet's word be rescued?

“…and who treated patients with desensitization injections, was already then well established. Becker writes [9] (clinicians) desired a brief, convenient, not too limiting group of terms describing what their specialty was and what it was about. As a consequence, they turned more and more to the use of ‘allergy’, ‘allergic’, etc.…”

“…As Elmer Becker described in an erudite ‘History of anaphylaxis, hay fever and asthma’ published in this journal in 1999 [9], part of the confusion lay in attempts to ‘classify’ allergy. Doerr (1914) [10] initially divided allergy into hyper‐susceptibility to antigenic substances as well as altered reactivity to non‐antigens, e.g.…”

Estudio de alérgenos de polen en la atmósfera de Valladolid

“…A partir de este momento los cambios sociales provocados por la revolución industrial en Europa favorecieron el aumento de esta enfermedad y la sociedad comenzó a interesarse por ella. El inglés Blackley y el estadounidense Wyman demostraron la causalidad del polen, pero sus teorías tardarían décadas en ser reconocidas (Blackley, 1873(Blackley, , 1880Emanuel, 1988;Becker, 1999).…”