Letters Pollution

to

the Editor

and Allergy.

Sir,

Dr. David's compulsion to defend our profession's shortcomhis attention lrigs in the field of allergy is perhaps preventing from focusing on a major problem now facing the whole of Medical practice. We are leaving an era in which germs dominated the medical Pollution can scene and have entered an age of pollution. the body's defence and impair immune the system damage is damaged the a9ainst pollution. Once the immune system Person starts to develop allergies.

illness mechanism Allergy as an aetiological factor in the for all of patients the screening to as now so widespread justify allergy as an initial step in modern diagnosis. Dr. David refers to pollution as the cause of today's runaway We cannot of

is

be correct. ePidemic of allergic disorders. He might and it may be no '9nore the increase in environmental pollution in step with pollution. coincidence that allergic illness increases its A possible explanation forthe medical profession dragging in the fget in the task of assessing the importance of pollution the highest levels of current medical scene is the fact that doctors. Pollution entering the human body are administered by 'n terms of tonnage the greatest quantity of pollutants entering on or off prescrip?ur bodies comes across the chemist counter

tion.

in

are very misguided Two wrongs do not make a right and we harm we do with drugs by using the undo we can '^agining With rising 20% of drugs to treat illness caused by drugs. illness it is time for as iatrogenic

[Jiore hospital admissions diagnosed

profession. where we are going to the question as to Dr. David does not give a direct answer tell them about what to patients ^hy doctors refuse to listen he regards the that reveals illness, but when he field of allergy, I when it comes to the as his a

reappraisal of

as a

a"ergic

Psychiatrist guru lhink he gives us his answer. fear the psychiatrist. Patients today have come to hate and the dark ages and a hang over from is unscientific, Psychiatry too well. this only knows read modern well patient a psychiatrist, who himself It was Dr. Richard Mackarness, could be filled with irst discovered that our mental hospitals allergy. masked of cases Undiagnosed wrote in his books is The implications of what Mackarness is now out in the cold. he that SlJch bad news for psychiatry medical profession Sooner or later Dr. David and the whole Let us do it in our

issues. be called upon to face up to these of waiting until events 0v^n time at our own instigation instead

P^ertake

us.

^Ours sincerely, C.

Hamlyn, ^dward House ^Vbridge Devon PL21 ODQ

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