MZ Teixeira
The hygiene hypothesis revisited
Homeopathy, 2005, 94 (4), 248-251
At the end of 2002, I published an article that related ‘the clinical observation, empirically cited over the centuries’, that ‘inhibition of acute disease manifestation in childhood can predispose to future chronic diseases’, according to distinct lines from medical thought: homeopathy (Hahnemann, Burnett, French school), anthroposophic medicine, experimental pathology (Maffei).1 This theory assumed a modern scientific guise in the ‘hygiene hypothesis’, suggesting ‘an inverse relationship between atopic diseases and an environment that leads to increased pathogen exposure’.
