The word "allergy" was first used by Von Pirquet (1) to describe "changed or altered reactivity" to various agents and included immunity as well as hypersensitivity. To-day, however, it is used most often as a synonym of hypersensitivity. (2) and is defined by Sherman and Kessler (3) as "a general term to include all of the phenomena of specific sensitization believed to be mediated by an antigen-antibody mechanism. Certain clinical forms of allergy, like hay fever and asthma, seem to be determined partly by hereditary influences and for these Coca and Cooke (10) in 1923, proposed the word "atopy" (from the Greek meaning out of place, strange) and the word “atopens” to describe the antigens able to produce such diseases.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.113614 |
| Date | January 1962 |
| Creators | Delorme, Joseph. A. |
| Contributors | Rose, B. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Health Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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