Asthma in Children

Abstract
Negative Skin TestsThe first installment of this paper described the study of 370 children with asthma who were seen before age thirteen and showed positive skin tests. This section deals with a group of 79 cases (48 boys and 31 girls) comparable except that skin tests showed no reaction to any of the common foods or dusts. Of these 79 cases, 49 are "cured"; they include 32 boys and 17 girls who have had no asthma since their teens. Their asthma began at average age 3.6 and they were first seen at average age 6.8; their asthma cleared at . . .