Abstract:The frequency of nasal and bronchial allergy in childhood needs constant emphasis in the minds of all physicians. Pediatricians have long realized this fact since the epochal work of O. M. Schloss,1 who was the first to demonstrate the clinical value of the skin reaction, and whose other contributions on allergy in childhood up to 1920 laid the basis of much of the present knowledge of this subject.Of general interest is the realization that the statistics on the frequency of allergy in the general population … Show more
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