Who was the first person to make use of the word "allergy"?....
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How was Allergy Discovered?
In 1902, two French scientists injected dogs with a small amount of extract from the sea anemone. Nothing happened. A week later, they repeated the procedure in exactly the same way - and watched, amazed, as the animals developed severe reactions.
The dogs had somehow become sensitive to the formerly harmless substance. The researchers had discovered allergy. In allergy, the immune system makes a mistake and 'remembers' and then reacts to harmless foreign substances as if they were harmful. These otherwise harmless foreign substances are called allergens. Allergy symptoms are the result of the immune system reacting to an allergen. When a person develops an allergy they are described as having become 'sensitized' to that particular allergen.
In the decades since that landmark series of sea anemone experiments, scientists have come to know a great deal about the phenomenon called allergy. In fact, in 1965, scientists at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center discovered the allergy antibody (called IgE) that is involved in all true allergic reactions. Ironically, allergy symptoms result when the immune system makes the IgE antibody in an effort to protect us from otherwise harmless allergens.
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The term allergy was first suggested by Dr. Clemens Von Pirquet in 1906. Dr. Von Pirquet used the word allergy to describe an inappropriate reaction to food or other subtances that are not typically harmful or bothersome. Some physicians have tried to narrow the definition of the term allergy to suit their own needs by coining their own term "true" allergy. The word "true" is not a medical term now, nor is it likely that it will ever become a medical term. the definition of allergy still stands as it was intended regardless of the attempts to modify the definition to suit a limited group of clinicians or physicians.
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