[Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Jersey.

  • Jersey (Channel Islands). Council.
Date:
1933
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    a crystalloid compound which is rapidly absorbed and which is highly toxic. One might explain Anaphylaxis as an indigestion produced by the introduction of natural food stuffs by an unnatural route. Allergy means “ different work,” this phenome non occurs so long as the organism giving rise to Allergy, is present in the body of the allergic indivi- dual, and is produced by the bye products of the dead organism. Allergic manifestations are of two types, immediate, due to the carbohydrate moitie of the foreign nucleo-protein, the late is due to the nucleic acid portion of the foreign nucleo-protein, which pro- bably is a vegetable in contradistinction to an animal nucleo-protein. The different work that is referred to by Allergy results from the body trying to digest and to assimilate a foreign substance, a vegetable nucleo-protein by the normal route. The Allergic reactions known as the Von Pirquet and Mantoux occur in other diseases than in Tubercle this the writer has pointed out, as probably due to a chemical factor—acidfast substance which is found in organisms associated with these diseases viz Tubercle and those chronic diseases of the lung associated with Monilia viz Asthma and Dry and Wet Bronchiectasis. The break down products of nucleo-proteins have to be dealt with by the proteopexic property of the liver. So long as there is a sufficiency of Glycogen, this latter substance will attempt to deal with the foreign protein from the higher bacteria by forming a chemical compound; with the exhaustion of Glycogen, allergy results, with a consequent inflam- matory reaction of the liver as seen by the Van den Berg reaction and the passage of Oriel’s P. substance in the Urine.