‘Clinical immunology’ and the‘practise of allergy’

The rapid advances in immunology and increase in its theoretical and practical applications makes urgently necessary, its wider academic and clinical recognition in its own right, and greater development of organized training and of opportunities of employment for those specially trained in this field. The clinicians who have been drawn into this work by special demands in different specialties include 'allergists' or 'allergologists'. Together with many other organizations, groups and individuals, the International Association of Allergology has been examining the 'practise of allergy' in terms of certification or specialization. This will, appropriately, be the main topic discussed here, but in view of the common basis in immunopathology of all clinicians working in immunology, varying only in emphasis on one or other aspect, whatever is said is relevant to the consideration of the proper place in medicine of clinical immunology in general.