The Incidence of Milk Sensitivity and the Development of Allergy in Infants
- 30 May 1963
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 268 (22) , 1220-1224
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196305302682204
Abstract
IT is frequently difficult to find the allergen causing allergic symptoms in a given case. Yet in probably no other condition is a diagnosis so freely made, by both physician and layman, with so little to support it as in allergy. The allergic diagnosis is the sine qua non of the post hoc ergo propter hoc school. It is therefore not surprising to find that the reported incidence of milk allergy in babies varies from CollinsWilliams's1 figure of 0.3 per cent to the 1.0 per cent of Bachman and Dees2 up to Clein's3 7.0 per cent, and that the . . .Keywords
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