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A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE OF 1943

FRANCIS M. RACKEMANN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1944;73(3):248-266.

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ALLERGY IN THE ARMY

The Army is cautious about accepting selectees who give evidence of having hay fever, asthma or eczema, and this is proper. The symptoms carry a potential risk of later disability which is often considerable, and so far the methods of dealing with these allergic states are not developed as well as they might be in the Army.

In the First Army Corps Area, Hyde and Kingsley¹ made a study of the incidence of allergy among the registrants at the induction center. There were 60,000 registrants, and of these 21,500 were rejected. Allergy, however, was the cause of less than 1 per cent of the rejections. There were only 495 rejections on account of allergy, and most of these were for asthma. It is interesting that there were only 11 men with eczema and 12 with dermatitis in this large group. Incidentally, the officers reviewed the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Lecturer in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital BOSTON