The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: 90 years strong

The Journal of Allergy was launched in November 1929. The inaugural issue had 6 original articles covering asthma, ragweed pollen, bacterial allergy, a case report, sinusitis, and classification of specific sensitivities. The first editorial emphasized that the  Journal “has been launched as a medium for the presentation of papers concerning the clinical aspects of specific hypersensitivities in human beings.”1 Twenty years later, an editorial celebrating that anniversary stated, “A new era in allergy is coming into being, due to the ‘rediscover y’ that human hypersensitiveness may be responsible for the symptoms of rheumatic fever, acute nephritis, arteritis, and a variety of clinical disorders……Allergy as applied to such situations has the same validity as it has in hay fever, for the lesions of each are mediated by immune mechanism s.”2 One can argue that this was a visionary approach to the scope and future of the specialty, foreshadowing the era of clinical immunology.
Source: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology - Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research