Allergenic Pollen
Mikhail Sofiev. Karl-Christian Bergmann
Editors
2013
Allergic rhinitis was not well described before John Bostock’s paper, whereas asthma was identi fi ed before Christ. Although rhinitis may have been recognized in the Antiquity, the “rose catarrh” was probably the fi rst description of allergic rhinitis in the sixteenth century by Vallerianus and later by Botallo (1565). John Bostock described precisely what he called “catarrhus aestivus” and later became “hay fever” and then “allergic rhinitis.” However, John Bostock was unable to find that pollen was the cause of the disease…