Proust
‘ Sir,—The kind of attempt by your reviewer last Saturday to derive the illness of Marcel Proust from emotional factors is hopelessly outdated. "His asthma was primarily—as modern psychology allows us to see it—a'bid for his mother's love." Nonsense. Tor example. Robert A. Cooke. M.D., Sc.D., F.A.C.P.. states: "Psychic factors cannot produce an allergic state or its resulting reaction but they may modify the symptoms quite naturally and not infrequently are the result of chronic allergy.” It is evident that Proust suffered from allergy l to cold, which is physical, not emotional, in origin. Guinea pigs exposed to 5 degrees C. develop cold allergy. The basis of allergy is the physical formation of shock tissues. Allergic symptoms, as Proust observed in himself, are frequently worst on awakening, nrobably due to relative glandular inactivity during sleep.—Yours, etc., • A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE . . May 2, 1957.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28268, 4 May 1957, Page 3
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