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Article: An Asthma Handbook For Patients and Families
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 10, 1987
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Asthma
By Allan M. Weinstein, MD
McGraw Hill Book Co, 1987, $17.95
Ordinarily it should not take three people to review a book of
350 small pages with large print. The fact that this is so suggests
that there must be something very special about either the subject or
the book. In this particular case, it is both.
Asthma is no ordinary disease; in fact, it is not a disease at
all. Rather, asthma is the name given to a variety of bronchial tube
disorders with the same basic symptoms. There are different causes
and patterns for the various kinds-those that first occur in infancy
and childhood, early adulthood, and past the mid-life years. And
doctors who treat these different varieties may ...