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asthma This page intentionally left blank asthma The Biography R Mark Jackson 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Mark Jackson 2009 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2009 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jackson, Mark, 1959– Asthma : the biography / Mark Jackson. p. ; cm.—(Biographies of disease) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-19-923795-1 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Asthma—History. I. Title. II. Series: Biographies of disease (Oxford, England) [DNLM: 1. Asthma—history. WF 11.1 J13a2009] RC591.J3152009 616.2'38—dc22 2009026412 Typeset by SPI Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc ISBN 978–0–19–923795–1 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 For Ciara, Riordan, and Conall L’amour c’est l’espace et le temps rendus sensibles au cœur. Marcel Proust, La Prisonnière This page intentionally left blank acknowledgements Unlike asthma, this book has a relatively straightforward history. Approximately two years ago, Bill and Helen Bynum asked me to contribute a volume on asthma to a new edited series entitled ‘Biographies of Disease’, to be published by Oxford University Press. Since it seemed an excellent idea, I agreed, and the book was born. I am deeply grateful to Bill and Helen for their con- structive, and astonishingly swift and generous, advice and sup- port throughout the process of preparing the manuscript. I am also indebted to Latha Menon from Oxford University Press for her careful coordination and management of the project. The research on which the book is based was funded by the Wellcome Trust, and I am grateful both for the Trust’s fi nancial support and for the advice and friendship of key fi gures within the Trust, particularly Mark Walport, Clare Matterson, Tony Woods, and Liz Shaw. Since the chronological and geographi- cal range of the subject extended well beyond my usual terms of historical reference, I am afraid that I relied on the generosity of many colleagues, who shared their work, time, and ideas in order to facilitate my access to the previously hidden depths of ancient and modern, Western and Eastern, histories of medi- cine. In particular, I would like to thank Guy Attewell, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Siam Bhayro, Roberta Bivins, Jeremy Black, Maarten Bode, Tse Wen Chang, Philip van der Eijk, Alison Finch, Ali Haggett, Rhodri Hayward, Harry Hendrick, Carla Keirns, Ian Gregg, Tak Lee, Vivienne Lo, Gregg Mitman, Glen Needham, vii acknowledgements Carol Parry, David van Sickle, Matthew Smith, Akihito Suzuki, and John Wilkins. I am also grateful to staff in the inter-library loan section of the University of Exeter Library for obtaining copies of otherwise inaccessible articles and books, and to Asthma UK for allowing me access to the early records of the Asthma Research Council. I am grateful to the following sources for the illustrations and permission to reproduce them: Figure 1: http://c ommons/ wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Marcel_Proust_1900.jpg; Figures 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 10 are reproduced courtesy of the Wellcome Library, London; Figure 6 is from Clyde Henderson Thompson, ‘Marin Marais, 1656–1728’ (Ph.D. thesis, University of Michigan, 1957); Figures 9 and 11 are reproduced courtesy of the Advertising Archives, London; Figure 12 is provided by the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, Templeman Library, University of Kent, copyright Mirrorpix, 1958, repro- duced by permission of Mirrorpix; Figures 13 and 15 are Crown copyright, reproduced from the Lung and Asthma Information Agency Factsheets 97/3 and 2001/1, http://www.sghms.ac.uk/ depts/laia/laia.htm; Figure 14 is a scanning electron micrograph of an American house dust mite reproduced by kind permis- sion of Glen Needham, Acarology Laboratory, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. I have made every effort to contact all copyright holders. If proper acknowledgement has not been made, I ask the copyright holders to contact the publishers. Of course, my heart belongs to Siobhán, who breathed fresh life into me many years ago and who will always be the fulcrum of my world. The book is dedicated, however, to our three chil- dren, Ciara, Riordan, and Conall, who have so beautifully fi lled our space and time. viii contents List of Illustrations xi Prologue 1 i Classical Asthma 10 ii Asthma Redefi ned 47 iii Asthma, Allergy, and the Mind 100 iv Asthma in the Modern World 152 Epilogue 199 Glossary 205 Notes 209 Further Reading 235 Index 241 ix

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Asthma is a familiar and growing disease today, but its story goes back to the ancient world, as we know from accounts in ancient texts from China, India, Greece and Rome. It was treated with acupuncture and Ayurveda. As Western medicine developed, the nature of asthma became clearer, and its basis
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