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Synopsis
Excerpt from Anaphylaxis and Anti-Anaphylaxis, and Their Experimental Foundations
What is anaphylaxis Had this question been put to the most highly qualified bacteriologists only ten years ago, in nine cases out of ten no reply would have been forthcoming. At that time the few persons who had heard of Richet's experiments on actino-congestin were decidedly of the opinion that it was a matter of pure physiology which would scarcely interest the bacteriologist and still less the clinician.
Since then this subject has made such strides that to-day if one does not wish to pass for a clinician of the old school a knowledge, at least upon its broad lines, of all that has to do with anaphylaxis is indispensable, and especially of the means that should be taken to avoid it. Just as often happens in similar cases, we go from one extreme to the other. To-day we see anaphylaxis in everything, and should a biological phenomenon that is a little out of the ordinary type make its appearance, we immediately regard it as related to anaphylaxis.
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