Word: allergist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC. 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). All about hay fever and other allergies. With Allergist Dr. Leighton E. Cluff...
Patients of this type, say Allergists Thomas G. Johnston and Alan G. Cazort, react simply to pressure on the skin. When the allergist applies a patch containing a suspected cause of allergic reaction, the patient reacts all right-but to the pressure of the patch, not to the supposedly allergenic substance. In their practice the doctors found that many patients who say they are allergic to wool are actually irritated by the wool's rough fibers: properly conducted patch tests show that they do not react to pure wool, or the wool in their particular sweaters. For girls, wearing...
...spread, an allergist in Philadelphia raised the possibility that greatly reduced vaccine doses can supply adequate protection if injected into the skin instead of under it. Writing in Philadelphia Medicine, Dr. Louis Tuft of Temple University reports that, on the basis of limited experiments by Walter Reed's Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one-tenth the present dose given intracutaneously produces approximately the same antibody response as the present recommended dose given subcutaneously. Suggested reason: vaccine injected into the skin is absorbed more slowly, and cells have more time to respond...
...conscientious allergist can permit Walter W. Sackett's accelerated diet for infants [Sept. 24] to go unchallenged. To feed eggs, orange juice and other solids to infants only a few weeks of age is the best way to initiate such allergic diseases as atopic eczem allergic rhinitis, bronchial asthma and even neuro-circulatory disturbances...
This encouragement to find allergy where none was suspected before came from Manhattan's aged (81) Allergist Arthur Fernandez Coca. Sometime medical director of Lederle laboratories, Dr. Coca did not begin to treat patients until he was 65, soon found that many who had puzzling sensitivities did not react with the usual wheal to scratch tests with any of the common causes of allergy. To explain this, he postulated that the patients must have a concealed reaction marked by quickening of the heartbeat. He called this supposed condition idioblapsis (literally, self-produced harm), sought to confirm it by noting...