Download or read book The Practical Medicine Series, Vol. 7 written by Charles L. Mix and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Practical Medicine Series, Vol. 7: Comprising Eight Volume on the Years's Progress in Medicine and Surgery Protein Sensitization in Skin Disease. A critical dis ensaiou of the various theories, a review of the literature and the results of the tests applied in a series of cases appear in an article by Highman and Michael.' Of. The sixty-three positive reactions, thirty-seven were to vegetable and twenty-six to animal proteins. Reac tions to more than one protein occurred in eleven of the twelve cases tested. Reactions to both vegetable and an'i mal proteins occurred in ten cases. In one case only buckwheat was tried. Suprarenal extract was of bene fit in eight cases; it was not employed in five and caused collapse in one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.