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Immunology and Preservation of the Norm¹

Department of Epidemiology and Virus Laboratory, School of Public Health University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Abstract

Although the Society of American Immunologists retains the custom of having its president, at the Annual Meeting, address the more tolerant and durable members of the organization, it imposes no restrictions upon the nature of that discourse. At mid-century the obvious invitation is to review the accomplishments of the period but it seems impossible and undesirable to attempt even a listing of the discoveries and advances in the field of immunology during the past 50 years. Immunology is a broad concept concerning itself extensively with the study of phenomena related to the modes of behavior of host and parasite; with the mechanisms involved in maintenance of the norm, and their modifications upon exposure to a variety of potentially harmful agencies of infectious or non-infectious nature. This field of study has no sharply limiting boundaries, nor a specific discipline by which it must be restricted.

Footnotes

¹ Presidential remarks presented at the Annual Meeting of The American Association of Immunologists, Atlantic City, New Jersey, April 18, 1950.