THE RECENT TREND TOWARD A DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN ALLERGY AND IMMUNITY, AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO CLINICAL MEDICINE
Authors: Lay Martin
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1934)

Article1 October 1934THE RECENT TREND TOWARD A DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN ALLERGY AND IMMUNITY, AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO CLINICAL MEDICINELAY MARTIN, M.D., F.A.C.P.LAY MARTIN, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-8-4-483 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptFor many years writers have been promulgating the idea that allergy is an integral and essential part of the process of immunity. It has been taught and almost universally believed that the local and general response of allergy has been a necessary, although at times, a dangerous defense reaction in the immunological mechanism. 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