早在1700年意大利Ramazzini曾经描述了发生于筛谷工和量谷工的典型临床肺泡超过敏反应。1932年英国Campbell氏发表了农业工人处理发霉干草时发生本病。1961年Pepys等氏提出农民肺患者血清中有沉淀素抗发霉干草抗体。1965年《英国工业损伤法令》中列为第43号职业病。以后有关农民肺的报道就陆续在各国书刊发表,逐渐引起人们的注视。 As early as 1700, Ramazzini, Italy, described the typical clinical alveolar hypersensitivity reactions occurring in sieve and groats. In 1932, Campbell’s published the disease when agricultural workers deal with moldy hay. In 1961, Pepys et al. Proposed that there are precipitin-resistant moldy hay antibodies in the serum of peasant lung patients. Occupational diseases classified as No. 43 in the British Industrial Injury Ordinance 1965. Afterwards, reports on the lungs of peasants were published one after another in various national journals and gradually aroused people’s attention.