An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

SULZBERGER, Marion Baldur

4 entries
  • 2576.02

Hypersensitiveness to arsphenamine in guinea pigs. I. Experiments in prevention and desensitization.

Arch. Dermatol. Syph., 20, 669-697, 1929.

First demonstration of specific, acquired, lasting refractoriness to sensitization. This is the same or a closely related phenomenon to that demonstrated later by Burnet and Medawar under the name immune tolerance. See No. 2603.1.



Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Chemotherapeutic Agents › Arsphenamine
  • 2603.1

Arsphenamine hypersensitiveness in guinea pigs. II. Experiments demonstrating the role of the skin, both as originator and as site of the hypersensitiveness.

Arch. Dermatol. Syph., 22, 839-849, 1930.

Sulzberger showed that allergens gaining access to the epidermis are processed there in some manner (Langerhans cells?) that determines their allergenicity. See No. 2576.02



Subjects: ALLERGY, DERMATOLOGY
  • 2605.1

Experiments in silk hypersensitivity and the inhalation of allergen in atopic dermatitis (neurodermatitis disseminatus).

J. Allergy, 5, 554-569, 1934.

Proof that inhaled allergens can reach the skin in a quantity and quality capable of eliciting urticarial reactions. With W.T. Vaughn. Coca and Sulzberger coined the term, “atopic dermatitis.”



Subjects: ALLERGY, DERMATOLOGY
  • 2605.2

Penetration of allergens into the human skin.

N. Y. State J. Med. 44, 2452-2459, 1944.

Proof that allergens that produce urticarial reactions can penetrate the skin from external contact and thus produce the reaction that the authors named “contact urticaria.” With F. Herrmann and R. Baer.



Subjects: ALLERGY, DERMATOLOGY