Word: asthma
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Allergy. A few cases of skin inflammation, asthma or stuffy nose may be traced to tobacco. But for most people, allergy is the last thing they need to worry about when they light...
...name), was only in his teens when persecution drove his family from their native Spanish city of Cordova to Morocco, and thence to Egypt, where his father died. In old Cairo, young Maimonides became a physician, a profession in which he achieved such great eminence (his works on hygiene, asthma and sex were remarkably ahead of his time) that he eventually became personal doctor to the court of Sultan Saladin. But philosophy was Maimonides' greatest love, and his voluminous writings, almost all in Arabic, spread his fame through Europe and Africa, as well as the Middle East...
When G.I.s and their dependents began to show up at the U.S. Army Hospital in Yokohama with asthma, the medics expected it to be the same old complaint. But the case histories were consistently different. Patient after patient reported that during his first fall or winter in Yokohama he had a persistent cold. Exertion made him gasp for breath, but he did not worry about this until he awoke, usually between 1 and 3 a.m., terrified because he thought he was suffocating. The next year, these cases got worse, and many became uncontrollable, the patients bordering on collapse. Also...
...G.I.s called it "Yokohama asthma and were almost right. It is not confine to Yokohama, but to port cities like it-ringed around by hills, with varied industries fouling the air. Careful tests rule out pollens as a major cause of the asthma convicted smog as the villain. A team of Army doctors reports: "By smelling the air late in the afternoon, one could predict with considerable accuracy the number of patients who would seek medical attention that evening...
Americans, it turned out, were not the only victims. The Japanese suffered from it, as had other Westerners, but they had failed to distinguish it from other types of asthma. So far, the researchers report the only treatment for Yokohama asthma is to get out of places like Yokohama...