TY  - JOUR
T1  - POllinosis in southern california
AU  - Targow AM
Y1  - 1949/09/03
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1949.02910010101018
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 99
EP  - 00
VL  - 141
IS  - 1
N2  - To the Editor:— 
    In Queries and Minor Notes in The Journal of Sept. 11, 1948, page 167, under the heading "Allergy and Myopia," a New York physician inquires "What are the best areas in California for patients with hay fever and allergy?" Your consultant answers "California is practically free from ragweed. Therefore, patients who are sensitive to ragweed will almost certainly be free of symptoms in any part of that state."In a subsequent issue, Shure and Harris (Allergy and Myopia, J. A. M. A. 139: 554 [Feb. 19] 1949) reply that (1) the statement that patients who are sensitive to ragweed will almost certainly be free of symptoms in any part of this state is misleading, since the Western ragweed that grows here is antigenically related to short and giant ragweed, and (2) a patient moving to this area from the East will probably substitute an allergy to plants
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02910010101018
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02910010101018
ER  -