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Charles Harrison Blackley
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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 …
- … interested in hay fever. On 14 June [1873] he wrote to Blackley to thank him for his book …
- … & mucous membrane seems to me an astonishing fact’. Blackley was a doctor, practicing in …
- … the medical establishment. Himself a hay fever sufferer, Blackley devised an ingenious series of …
- … able to single out pollen as the only credible cause. Blackley investigated pollens from over …
- … dry heat above the boiling point of water. He also asked Blackley why he had not considered the …
- … cannot fail to be largely blown in every direction. (Letter to C. H. Blackley, 5 July [1873] ) …
- … pressing upon me’. Darwin was fascinated by Blackley’s experiments testing whether pollen …
- … why some sailors suffer from hay fever out at sea. Blackley flew kites at different altitudes …
- … later work, possibly inspired by his interest in homeopathy, Blackley tried to find out the smallest …
- … the weight of pollen grains by a dilution method. In his letter of 9 March 1877 , Darwin wrote: …
- … pollen grains is wonderful’. The ultimate goal of Blackley’s research remained elusive. He …
- … part of the task I originally set myself. Blackley tried many drugs to no avail. He had …
