Jack B. L. Howell - bibliography

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Biography

British physician, born 1926.

Bibliography

  • J. B. L. Howell, Roger Ernest Collingwood Altounyan (1922-1987):
    A double-blind trial of diodium cromoglygate in the treatment of allergic bronchial asthma. The Lancet, London, 1967, ii: 39-542.
  • A. M. Edwards, J. B. L. Howell:
    The chromones: history, chemistry and clinical development. A tribute to the work of Dr. R. E. C. Altounyan.
    Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 2000, 30: 756-774. Biographical:
  • Childhood Asthma and Beyond.
    A Witness Seminar Held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, on 4 April 2000.
    Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, Volume 11, 2001.

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