Word: allergist
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...agreed to release the body, without an autopsy, thus ending his interest in the case. His lack of interest was due to the fact that the Silvers' family physician had assured him that the girl had suffered from an allergy, and he would get a letter from the allergist setting this forth. To the allergist who had been treating her, the family physician explained that Doris had been "suddenly taken with an acute pain in the chest and within minutes had died...
...this report, the allergist agreed to give the coroner a letter establishing the fact that she had been under a doctor's care before death...
...little band of gold / A person can develop a cold"). But Manhattan's Dr. Bret Ratner disagrees with Adelaide. The psychosomatic approach to allergies, he complains, has become so popular that the family doctor has a hard time deciding whether to refer cases to a psychiatrist or an allergist. Allergist Ratner plumps for the allergist. Says he: "If the psychiatric factors are treated exclusively, there can be little hope for lasting help...
...Blaming food allergies for assorted ills has gone too far, suggested Allergist Samuel M. Feinberg of Chicago. The allergy victim is as subject to other ailments as anybody else, and these may be neglected if he rashly concludes that all his troubles are allergic in origin...
...Allergy: Facts and Fancies (Harper; $2.50), Dr. Samuel M. Feinberg, Northwestern University allergist, sets out to tell what is known and what isn't about a subject on which, doctors themselves frequently disagree...