{"id":5002,"date":"2006-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5002"},"modified":"2006-02-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T00:00:00","slug":"6-feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/6-feb\/","title":{"rendered":"Allergy History:  Dr. Clemens von Pirquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered where the word allergy comes from?  In 1906, Austrian Pediatrician Clemens von Pirquet first used the word allergy to describe the strange, non-disease related symptoms that some diphtheria patients developed when treated with a horse serum antitoxin. The word comes from the Greek word &#39;alol&#39;, meaning, &#39;change in the original state&#39;.  And aptly, an allergic reaction is the result of the body&#39;s change when it adversely responds to a harmless substance.  Pirquet is also the father of the modern tuberculosis test, which is named after him.<\/p>\n<p>Source:  Encyclopedia Brittanica Online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered where the word allergy comes from? In 1906, Austrian Pediatrician Clemens von Pirquet first used the word allergy to describe the strange, non-disease related symptoms that some diphtheria patients developed when treated with a horse serum antitoxin. The&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/miscellaneous\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Miscellaneous<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[191],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}