EMULSION THERAPY FOR ALLERGIC DISEASE. CLINICAL RESULTS WITH USE OF SMALL VOLUMES.

In a series of cases in which emulsion repository desensitization therapy for allergic disease was carried out, the amount of emulsion injected was, for a time, one milliliter. Then, for a second period, the volume was reduced to 0.5 milliliter, and minor refinements of technique were introduced. Many of the patients treated in the first period were also treated in the second. The incidence of untoward reaction, ranging from mild soreness to the development of draining cysts at the site of injection into the arm, was greatly reduced between the first and second periods.