BRONCHIAL MICROBES
ASTHMA CURE CLAIMED. (Rec. 11.40.) LONDON, May 21. The “Sunday Express” says: An important forward move in the treatment. 1 of bronchial asthmatic, and other respiratry diseases has been revealed b v the publication in the Indian Medical Gazette of a paper by Doctors F. Carter and V. S. Dabrera, medical entomologists, and Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander G. Wedd.
They have discovered mites, which apparently are breathed into the lungs and the bronchi of bronch al sufferers and are bred there.. The mites were not discovered by the usual method of the examination of the sputum. Those mites are also found in abundance in dusty roorfis, and in certain flowers. Arsenical preparations put an end to the mites. When the mites were eliminated the patient’s symptoms disappeared.
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Grey River Argus, 22 May 1944, Page 4
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