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- Document type:
- Historical Article; Journal Article
- Author(s):
- Ring, Johannes
- Title:
- History of allergy in antiquity.
- Abstract:
- Allergic diseases are not new. They have been described in the early medical literature in various cultures like Egypt, China, indigenous America and in the Greco-Roman tradition. The terms 'idiosyncrasy', 'asthma' and 'eczema' are still in use today. The most famous allergic individual of antiquity with the whole triad of atopic diseases and a positive family history of atopy probably was Emperor Octavianus Augustus.
- Journal title abbreviation:
- Chem Immunol Allergy
- Year:
- 2014
- Journal volume:
- 100
- Pages contribution:
- 2-14
- Language:
- eng
- Fulltext / DOI:
- doi:10.1159/000358422
- Pubmed ID:
- http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24925379
- Print-ISSN:
- 1660-2242
- TUM Institution:
- Klinik und Poliklinik für Dermatologie und Allergologie
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