Bronchitis historical perspective
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Overview
Bronchitis Historical Perspective
Discovery
The beginnings of the clinical understanding of bronchitis are credited to physician Dr. Charles Badham. He was the first to differentiate bronchitis from pleurisy and pneumonia through the essays he wrote in 1808 and 1814.[1]. Badham used the word catarrh to distinguish chronic cough and mucus hypersecretion as cardinal symptoms.[2]
Landmark Events in the Development of Treatment Strategies
Dr. Ronald Christie, professor of medicine at the University of London, was the first to recognize the individual components of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which is defined as chronic airflow obstruction that is progressive and only partly reversible. Bronchitis is included under the umbrella of COPD. Based on his research, Dr. Neville Oswald was able to describe the clinical features of 1,000 different cases of chronic bronchitis in 1953.[2]
References
- ↑ Charles Balham. Wikipedia (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Badham_(physician) Accessed on August 26, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Petty TL (2006). "The history of COPD". Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 1 (1): 3–14. PMC 2706597. PMID 18046898.