Category: Spring 2011Page 4 of 4
In the dawn of the twentieth century, Paul Ehrlich, an illustrious German hematologist, immunologist, and 1908 Nobel Laureate of Medicine, posited a biological theory of horror autotoxicus, the unwillingness of the organism to endanger itself by the formation of toxic autoantibodies. In other words, an organism’s immune system could not develop an autoimmune response.