Article: Allergy/immune dysfunction or what's in a name? (Bookcorners).(Hay Fever)(Book Review)

Hay Fever

by Dr. Jonathan Brostoff and Linda Gamlin

Healing Arts Press, One Park St., Rochester, Vermont 05767 USA; www.InnerTraditions.com

1993, 2002, Quality paperback, $14.95US/$23.95Canada, 355 pp

Somehow, the description of "hay fever" sounds old-fashioned today -- and rightly so. Allergies were first associated with grasses (hay) in the 1800's and though they still remain a source of allergy suffering, it usually lasts only during the pollen season. What's become a much more complicated immune reaction to many sources -- molds, house dust, foods -- today is usually referred to as "allergies" rather than "hay fever." Dr. Brostoff ...

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