history of cystic fibrosis seventy or more years ago--via n

[Guest guest]

http://www.nurseweek.com/ce/ce121a.asp

I believe that a German physician, whose name I cannot recall, and a Swiss

physician named, I think, Bucholz, first noticed the connection with salt on

the infant's skin.

I have read before, and cannot locate it now, that the first description, was in

the

early 19th century, and that there were a few descriptions nearly two hundred

years

before that.

n Rojas, who is sorry to not have more concrete data, but sends this along,

as nurses have long been known to be the first contact with an infant