date:Dec 24, 2018
d Allergy, strange reactions to food have long been known.
The Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates described such reactions to various foods, including cheese. Strawberries caused Richard III to break out into hives. It is said he once sneakily consumed a messe of strauberies, and then blamed his reaction on witchcraft orchestrated by one of his opponents, who was summarily beheaded.
By the time Austrian physician Clemens von Pirquet coined the term allergy in 1906, many believed that food co