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Studies in Specific Hypersensitiveness

VIII. On the Relative Susceptibility of the American Indian Race and the White Race to the Allergies¹ and to Serum disease

From the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Division of Immunology, in Cornell University Medical College, New York City and the New York Hospital, New York City, and the Department of Bacteriology in the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Abstract

Through inquiry it has been found that the American Indian is apparently much less frequently affected by the allergies than is the white race. An experimental study of the occurrence of serum disease in twenty-six volunteer full-blood American Indians indicates that the Indian race is much less susceptible to that condition than is the white race.

This similarity in the relative susceptibility of the two races to these two conditions suggests a similarity in the underlying mechanism of both of the conditions which, however, need not amount to a complete identity.

Footnotes

¹ By allergy is meant the inherited forms of specific human hypersensitiveness, such as hay-fever, asthma, angio-neurotic edema and urticaria.