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Horror autotoxicus

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Literally, the horror of self-toxicity.

A term coined by the great German bacteriologist and immunologist Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) to describe the body's innate aversion to immunological self-destruction.

However, as we now know, the immune system can upon occasion attack itself and does so in the autoimmune disorders

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