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A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE OF 1935

FRANCIS M. RACKEMANN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1936;57(1):184-212.

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In January 1935 a review of the current literature on allergy was published in the ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE.¹ The present paper represents a continuation and extension of that work. During the year the number of new titles under the headings anaphylaxis, allergy, asthma, hay fever and eczema has been large, and, as before, a good deal of selection has been necessary and no doubt certain important articles have been missed.

An editorial² in The Journal of the American Medical Association for June 1, 1935, says: "Perhaps it is time now to examine the definition [of allergy] and determine its present status. . . . In the main it would probably be well to restrict the term to those disorders of sudden onset in which a specific tissue hypersensitivity is demonstrable." In last year's review it was pointed out that allergy is used to connote the mechanism of three different states, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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