Science Past from the Dember 3, 1960 issue

ASTHMA CLUE FROM HORSES — Research into the deaths of thoroughbred horses, especially foals, has produced an entirely new approach to the treatment of asthma, hay fever and skin troubles in human beings…. During the course of the investigation on horses, a substance was found in certain white cells in the horses’ blood that played an active part in the control of histamine, frequently the cause of surgical and accidental shock.…