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You might find this book Allergy : The History of a Modern Malady by Professor Jackson of interest. He is a professor of the history of medicine and director for the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter

"Only a century ago, allergies as we know them didn't exist. Ailments such as hay fever, asthma, and food intolerance were considered rare and non-fatal diseases that affected only the upper classes of Western society. Yet, as Jackson reveals here, what began in the early 1900s as a scorned subfield of immunology research in Europe and America exploded into great medical, cultural, and political significance by the end of that century. Allergy traces how the allergy became the archetypal "disease of civilization," a fringe malady of the wealthy that became a disorder that bridged all socioeconomic boundaries and fueled anxieties over modernization. Jackson also examines the social impact of the allergy, as it required new therapeutic treatments and diagnostic procedures and brought in vast economic rewards."

The concept of an "allergy" wasn't introduced into medicine until 1906 by Clemens von Pirquet. The increase in allergies such as peanut allergy in kids over the past century likely has more to do with the aseptic living environments (i.e. clean living) than food rotation and variety.

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