Allergy to Drugs

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THE seventeenth century must have been the nadir of therapeutics, if we can believe Molière, for one of his characters remarks: "Almost everyone dies of the remedy, not the malady." Fortunately, since then many drugs that were poisonous to the majority of patients have been abandoned, and, more recently, the adoption of preliminary toxicity tests on animals has done much to prevent new examples from reaching the clinic. In the past few decades, however, as advances in synthetic chemistry have made increasing numbers of new drugs available, one type of poisoning, — allergy to drugs, — has become more and . . .
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