Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account

Hypersensitivity

Inflammatory response to an exogenous environmental antigen or an endogenous antigen initiated by the adaptive immune system

Wikidata
Source:
Wikidata

On this page

  • Images from the collections
  • Works from the collections
  • Related topics

Images from the collections

Images referencing Hypersensitivity

52 images from works
  • Cough suppression with decongestion : ...'Actifed' Compound Linctus.
  • Guide to the prescribing and ordering of Bencard allergy products for diagnosis and treatment.
  • Hacia la conquista de las manifestaciones alérgicas... : Trimeton, Cloro-Trimeton / Schering Corporation.
  • Granoxyl : thérapeutique reconstituante et reminéralisante.
  • Hacia la conquista de las manifestaciones alérgicas... : Trimeton, Cloro-Trimeton / Schering Corporation.
  • When all aloud the wind doth blow... : winter and summer alike coughs, congestion and the common cold call for 'Actifed' products.
  • "...it was the black kitten's fault entirely" : 'Histantin'.
  • Data sheet : Dioderm / Dermal Laboratories Limited.
  • "What of vile dust?" G. K. Chesterton : 'Histantin' offers three distinct advantages to the allergic patient ...
  • 'Actifed' Compound Linctus : for cough with or without congestion especially in bronchitis.

Works from the collections

324 works

    • Books

    Progress in allergy : Fortschritte der Allergielehre. Volume 3 / edited by Paul Kallós.

    | Date: 1952
    • Books

    A parent's guide to children's allergies / Emile Somekh.

    Somekh, Emile. | Date: [1972], ©1972
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Allergic colitis haemorrhagica

    | Date: 1922-1947 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.68
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
    • Books

    Take control of asthma : from five years old to adulthood / [written by Andrew Rutherford] ; [medical editor: Martyn R. Partridge] ; [illustration: Angela Dundee].

    Rutherford, Andrew, 1968- | Date: [1993], ©1993
    • Books

    Allergy / British Lung Foundation.

    | Date: 2009

Related topics

Allergy and Immunology
Disease
Skin
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Drug Industry
Dermatology
Asthma
London
Allergy
Child

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Library
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Café
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 18:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Access information

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
TikTok
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence