Dermatitis Medicamentosa

PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW BrrJ which did not persist for as much as three months in the year.Sitting height was not found to be significantly related with P.E.F. when allowance was made for age.The College of General Practitioners (1961) also found a similar rate of decline of mean P.E.F. with age in non-bronchitic subjects, and their values were uniformly lower than those found among " normal" men as defined in this study.The College of General Practitioners gave figures for non-bronchitic women indicating a rate of decline of P.E.F. with age about half that experienced by the men.Higgins (1960, personal communication) found that the decline of P.E.F. with age in symptom-free men in the population he studied was similar to that found in our sample, and parallel to the decline in P.E.F. in symptom-free women.His values for P.E.F. in symptom-free men were a little higher than those given here.The values for P.E.F. in symptom-free women were approximately 200 I./min.lower than values for symptom-free men in the same age-group.