This book reveals startling facts about asthma resulting from the author's studies of its onset, its history, and the various methods of treatment. He offers his own advice on treatment and gives answers to hotly-debated questions such as why nobody died of asthma before 1960, and why the number of asthma cases exploded since 1960 in countries where antibiotics were freely available, while in Africa and South America, countries which could not afford antibiotics, the asthma numbers have remained static.