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GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT

HAROLD G. TOBEY, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;12(6):813-819.

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Before taking up the general principles of the treatment for allergy, it will be well for the purpose of this paper to define the field of discussion.

It is essential to confine the discussion to the treatment for the nasal and bronchial manifestations of the phenomenon of allergy, namely, allergic or atopic coryza and asthma. Other manifestations, such as urticaria, angioneurotic edema, migraine, abdominal conditions and the like, need not be considered.

It is necessary to recognize that while the development of the study of allergy has added greatly to the knowledge of asthma and the vasomotor disturbances of the nasal mucous membrane, it has by no means been admitted universally to be the sole cause or in some quarters to be the principal cause of these conditions. By some, asthma is considered a vasomotor neurosis and by others a toxemia.

Rackemann stated that the proportion of patients . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, May 28, 1930.

Read before the American Laryngological Association, May 22, 1930.

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