Farmer' Lung

Abstract

AN interesting suggestion has been made by Jackson and Yow elsewhere in this issue of the Journal that farmer's lung "resembles Loeffler's syndrome, for, at times, it manifests the triad of pulmonary infiltrations, eosinophilia and a benign clinical course." It may be more accurate for these authors to urge that physicians study their patients demonstrating this syndrome with a view to developing a history of exposure to moldy hay close in time to the onset of disease.Löffler's¹ original report (1932) described the association of variable, transient chest x-ray changes and eosinophilia, often asymptomatic, in persons with a history of . . .