Non-allergic Children Research Articles

Personality differences in allergic and nonallergic children: Riess, B. F., and de Cillis, O. E.: J. Abnorm. & Social Psychol. 35: 104, 1940

Personality differences in allergic and nonallergic children: Riess, B. F., and de Cillis, O. E.: J. Abnorm. & Social Psychol. 35: 104, 1940

Personality differences in allergic and non-allergic children.

Personality differences in allergic and non-allergic children.

Cutaneous reactions to tobacco antigen in allergic and in nonallergic children: Peshkin, M. M., and Landay, L. H.: Am. J. Dis. Child. 57: 1288, 1939

Cutaneous reactions to tobacco antigen in allergic and in nonallergic children: Peshkin, M. M., and Landay, L. H.: Am. J. Dis. Child. 57: 1288, 1939

INTELLIGENCE RATING AND EMOTIONAL PATTERN OF ALLERGIC CHILDREN

For many years it has been a popular conception that allergic persons possess superior mental traits, which for a time were considered to result directly from the allergic constitution. Balyeat,¹in 1929, strongly supported the theory of the superior mental ability of the allergic person. He based his conclusions on the results of the Otis self-administering test, which was given to 80 allergic and 80 nonallergic children. In 1937 Piness²and his associates made a similar study and reported their findings, which gave evidence that allergic children are similar in intelligence to normal children. Since these findings flatly contradicted those of Balyeat, we decided to study a group of allergic children in a similar manner, that we might secure further evidence on their mentality by comparing their intelligence quotients with those of the public school children of New York city. We also attempted to compare the emotional pattern

Cutaneous reactions to tobacco antigen in allergic and nonallergic children with the direct and indirect (local passive transfer) methods of testing: M. Murray Peshkin, M.D., New York, N. Y., and L. H. Landay, M.D., Pittsburgh, Pa. (Abstract)

Cutaneous reactions to tobacco antigen in allergic and nonallergic children with the direct and indirect (local passive transfer) methods of testing: M. Murray Peshkin, M.D., New York, N. Y., and L. H. Landay, M.D., Pittsburgh, Pa. (Abstract)

THE GENERAL HEALTH AND MENTAL ACTIVITY OF ALLERGIC CHILDREN

In a recent work 1 on the hereditary factor in allergic diseases, the role played by heredity in determining the general health of allergic patients was studied in a series of 1,217 patients, most of whom were adults. From the history and from physical and laboratory observations, it appeared that only 7.2 per cent of all patients were below normal, and that 74.9 per cent were above normal in general health. From my observations I was led to believe that patients suffering from allergic diseases have a superresistance to pathogenic organisms. The mental activity of forty allergic and forty nonallergic children was studied. Seventy per cent of the allergic children were above normal, which is in marked contrast to 15 per cent of the nonallergic children whose mental activity was above normal. From the observations it appeared that allergic children are above normal in mental activity. The furtherance of my