Word: wheal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 rises in the pulse...
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