Asthma is an unrelenting disease, which infects the respiratory system and has been a common problem, which dates back to the time of the ancient Egyptians. This disease and its related conditions have been treated in a variety of ways for several years and researchers have also established the triggers of the disease. The disease was first discovered by a Greek physician known as Hippocrates between 460 BC and 357 BC.
Asthma is derived from the Greek word aazein, meaning gasp when the mouth is open or a pant. This Greek physician was acknowledged as the first doctor to recognize and describe the asthmatic spasm even though the ancient Chinese and Egyptian cultures had already developed remedies for this condition before the Greeks.
Another person accredited for the discovery of asthma is Galen, a doctor who was Greek-Roman in the 201 BC- 130 BC period. He identified the asthmatic symptoms and recognized asthma is caused by obstructions in the bronchus. His treatment was the wine of an owl. The interesting fact though is that the two, Galen and Hippocrates, correctly identified the asthma disease before the birth of Christ but modern medicine believed that the disease was psychological condition until the 1980s. Nowadays, there are developed methods in treating the condition.
Asthma is an unrelenting disease, which infects the respiratory system and has been a common problem, which dates back to the time of the ancient Egyptians. This disease and its related conditions have been treated in a variety of ways for several years and researchers have also established the triggers of the disease. The disease was first discovered by a Greek physician known as Hippocrates between 460 BC and 357 BC.
Asthma is derived from the Greek word aazein, meaning gasp when the mouth is open or a pant. This Greek physician was acknowledged as the first doctor to recognize and describe the asthmatic spasm even though the ancient Chinese and Egyptian cultures had already developed remedies for this condition before the Greeks.
Another person accredited for the discovery of asthma is Galen, a doctor who was Greek-Roman in the 201 BC- 130 BC period. He identified the asthmatic symptoms and recognized asthma is caused by obstructions in the bronchus. His treatment was the wine of an owl. The interesting fact though is that the two, Galen and Hippocrates, correctly identified the asthma disease before the birth of Christ but modern medicine believed that the disease was psychological condition until the 1980s. Nowadays, there are developed methods in treating the condition.
