Asthma Research
The formation of the Asthma Research Council for the investigation of asthma, hay-fever, eczema, migraine and allied diseases has been described in previous letters to The Journal. Progress is now reported. At Guy's Hospital, a team, including a clinician, biochemist, bacteriologist, immunologist, rhinologist, psychologist and radiologist, is already at work. Here a number of patients are being subjected to an exhaustive investigation, which has already disclosed a constant deficiency of certain elements in the blood, the correction of which it is hoped may relieve or even permanently cure the condition. Equally promising is the work at the newly formed clinic at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, where asthma is being attacked in its simplest and most curable stage. The association of asthma with cyclic vomiting, epilepsy, migraine and skin disease is being investigated at this center. At the London Clinic, Ranelagh Road, S.W., physical methods of