1913: Cauterize your nose, cure your asthma

Another interesting concept of Adams is that he denied that most asthmatics had allergies, although he associated abnormalities in the nasal...

1913: Adam: A perfect description of an asthma attack

Consider the following description of an asthma attack: " In marked attacks not only is the struggle for breath so severe as to make th...

1913: Adam: Abnormalities Associated With Asthma

Dr. James Adam believed the most common cause of asthma was a toxin or poison in the blood.  The other cause of asthma was lesions in the re...

1913: Two types of chronic asthmatics

James Adams explains that most cases of asthma are chronic before they are seen by a physician; that these cases are usually treated as bron...

1913: Adam Toxaemic Theory of Asthma

By the turn of the 20th century, the medical profession had readily accepted both the nervous theory of asthma and that spasmodic theory of ...