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lucretia

On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:42:47 +0100, Janet > wrote:

>In article >, says...
>
>> I never knew a single person that had allergies when I was a kid, not one.
>
> Neither did I. But that doesn't mean allergy didn't exist; just that
>it wasn't recognised; medical diagnosis and treatment back then, was
>very limited.
>
> My mother's generation all knew women who lost "sickly" children, or
>whose babies and small children had "croup" ( untreated asthma),
>sometimes fatal).
>
> Janet UK

Croup is not 'untreated asthma' - it's a totally distinct condition
which if you had ever heard a child with croup you would know does not
sound like asthma at all.