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SECTION I: 1800-1899 1: Did Bostock Discover Allergic Rhinitis?, Jean Bousquet and Pascal Demoly 2: Early Insights into the Characteristics of Asthma, Gailen D. Marshall, Jr. 3: Identifying Asthma Triggers, Gailen D. Marshall, Jr. 4: Innovative Experiments Which Helped to Unravel the Aetiological Basis of Hay Fever, Aziz Sheikh 5: Asthma Enters the Medical Mainstream, Brian Hurwitz SECTION II: 1900-1949 6: What's in a Name? First Use of the Term 'Allergy', Barry Kay 7: An Innovative Treatment for Food Allergy, Gideon Lack 8: Laying the Foundation for Specific Immunotherapy, Glennis Scadding 9: Celebrating the Case Study: Schloss' Description of Atopic Dermatitis, Torsten Zuberbier 10: Richet's Nobel Lecture, Phil Lieberman 11: A Serendipitous Discovery, Madeleine Ennis 12: Cooke's Early Insights into the Potentially Curative Role of Immunotherapy for Hay Fever, Anthony J Frew and Helen E Smith 13: . Does Eczema Have an Allergic Aetiology?, Michael Ardern-Jones 14: ...and What about Angioedema and Urticaria?, Michael Ardern-Jones 15: Prausnitz, Küstner and the First Diagnostic Test for Allergy, Jonathan Brostoff and A. William Frankland 16: Introducing Atopy, Harold S. Nelson 17: Ephedra - Laying the Foundations for Modern Autonomic Pharmacology, Munir Pirmohammed 18: First Attempts to Unravel the Relationship between Diet and Allergy, Hasan Arshad 19: Demonstrating Serological Changes Induced by Ragweed Extract, N. Franklin Adkinson Jr 20: Bovet's Nobel Prize-winning Discovery of Antihistamines, Martin K Church and Marcus Maurer 21: Identification of Slow-Reacting Substance, Sven-Erik Dahlén 22: Oral Allergy Syndrome, Victoria Cardona and Ignacio J. Ansotegui SECTION III: 1950-1999 23: In Praise of Famous Men: Early Cortisone Studies, Andrew Bush 24: The Relationship between Mast Cells and Histamine, Michael Kaliner 25: What Goes Round Comes Around: Developing Allergen Immunotherapy, Stephen R Durham 26: Burnet, Clonal Selection Theory and Acquired Immunological Tolerance, Sarah Howie 27: Slow-Reacting Substance of Anaphylaxis, Marc Peters-Golden 28: Loveless and Wasp-venom Immunotherapy, Anthony Dubois 29: Developing an Understanding of Mast Cell Biology, Stephen Wasserman 30: Disodium Cromoglycate for Allergic Asthma, Alan Edwards 31: Ancient Egyptian Soup for Treating Asthma: Cox and Intal, Anant Parekh 32: RAST: The Iconic Test for Allergic Sensitisation, Shuaib Nasser 33: The Discovery of IgE, Sami L Bahna 34: Penicillin Allergy: A Model for Practical Clinical Translational Science, Lanny Rosenwasser 35: Unravelling the Relationship between Dermatophagoides Pteronyssinus and Asthma, Angela Simpson 36: The Gell and Coombs Classification, William W. Busse 37: The Dawn of Molecular Allergology, Hannah Gould 38: Immunotherapy Can Change the Natural History of Respiratory Allergy, Walter Canonica 39: Anatomy of the Asthmatic Bronchi, Paul O'Byrne 40: Identifying a Novel Cause of Occupational Allergy, Paul Cullinan and Anthony Newman Taylor 41: Delayed Hypersensitivity to Pollen Allergens, Tom Platts-Mills 42: Inhaled Beclomethasone Dipropionate: Stepping-up Asthma Care, Aziz Sheikh 43: Challenging Notions of the "Atopic Personality", Thomas Ruzicka and Andreas Wollenberg 44: Establishing and Investigating the Relationship between Food Allergy and Asthma, Graham Roberts 45: The "Histamine-Inhalational Test", . Bruce R Thompson and Robyn E O'Hehir 46: Allergic Reactions to Colloid Infusions-Another Chapter in the Colloid Debate, Jasmeet Soar 47: Total and Specific IgE and Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis, Paul Greenberger 48: Immunotherapy for Venom Allergy Comes of Age, Richard F. Lockey 49: Extending the Evidence for Immunotherapy to the Management of Children with House Dust Mite Triggered Asthma, Roy Gerth van Wijk 50: Insights from Xhosa into Environmental Risk Factors for the Development of Asthma, Peter Burney 51: Viral Infection, Allergic Sensitisation and Asthma, Jürgen Schwarze 52: Immune Responses in Atopic Eczema, Johannes Ring and Ulf Darsow 53: . Understanding the Relationship between Atopic Sensitisation and Airway Hyper-responsiveness in Asthma, Todor Popov 54: Key Insights into the Relationship between Food Allergy and Atopic Dermatitis, Alessandro Fiocchi 55: From Slow-Reacting Substance of Anaphylaxis to Anti-Leukotrienes, Frank Austen 56: Once More unto the Breach: the Role of the Damaged Bronchial Epithelium in Asthma, Karl Staples and Ratko Djukanovic 57: Management of Anaphylactic Shock, Simon Brown 58: The Hygiene Hypothesis, Graham Devereux 59: In Search of the Elixir for Childhood Allergy and Asthma, Diane Gold 60: A New Way of Considering 'Quality of Life', Allison Worth 61: Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis, Scott Sicherer 62: Allergen Avoidance: The Isle of Wight Study, Sandra Kuiper and Constant P. van Schayck 63: Introducing Sputum Counts, Parameswaran Nair 64: Atopic Asthma is a TH2-cell Mediated Disease, David Ahern 65: Investigating the Impact of Hay Fever on Educational Performance, Samantha M Walker 66: Findings from an Early Peanut Immunotherapy Trial, Tomohiro Utsunomiya and Motohiro Ebisawa 67: Auto-Immune Mechanisms in Chronic Urticaria, Young Min Ye and Hae-Sim Park 68: Air Pollution, Mortality and the Need for Public Health Policy, Frank J Kelly 69: The Geography of Asthma and Atopy: After the Berlin Wall Came Down, Seif Shaheen 70: The Role of Animal Allergens in Allergic Disease, Judith Woodfolk 71: The Natural History of Wheezing: the Tucson Cohort, Innes Asher and Julian R Vyas 72: Measuring Food-Specific IgE Values, Stacy Chin and Wesley Burks 73: Tuberculosis Exposure and Atopy, Mary Linehan 74: The Inner-City Home Environment and Asthma, James Friedlander and Wanda Phipatanakul 75: Mapping the Burden of Allergic Disease in Childhood: ISAAC, Carsten Flohr 76: The Relationship between Obesity and Asthma, David Beuther 77: The Emergence of Monoclonal Antibodies, Michael Daines and Wayne Morgan 78: The Renaissance in Allergen Immunotherapy, John Warner 79: Pet Exposure in Early Life and the Development of Allergy and Asthma, Somnath Mukhopadhyay SECTION IV: 2000-2012 80: Predicting the Development of Childhood Asthma, Denis Ownby 81: IL-5 Blocking Monoclonal Antibody, Andrew J Wardlaw 82: Learning from Anaphylaxis Fatalities, Simon Brown 83: Peanut Allergy and Quality of Life, Audrey DunnGalvin 84: The Janus Face of Endotoxin: for Good and Bad?, Erika von Mutius 85: Testing the 'Hygiene Hypothesis': Probiotics for the Primary Prevention of Atopic Eczema, Carlos Camargo 86: The Impact of Food Allergy on Health-Related Quality of Life, Antonella Muraro 87: Does Idiopathic Eosinophilic Esophagitis have an Allergic Aetiology?, Stephan Bischoff 88: Dawn of the Genomic Age for Asthma, Ian M Adcock 89: Endotoxins, Allergy and Tolerance, Malcolm Sears 90: Inherited Skin-Barrier Defects and Risk of Developing 'Atopic' Eczema, William Cookson 91: Anti-IgE: Biologicals Reach the Inner-cities, Ulrich Wahn 92: Conclusions: From the 18th to the 21st Century, and Beyond..., Tom Platts-Mills, Allison Worth and Aziz Sheikh
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