title: Life amidst the contrivances.
abstract: The established dogma of 'horror autotoxicus' was overturned 50 years ago with the publication of a paper showing that autoimmune thyroiditis could be induced in animals. Noel Rose recounts the events that led to the establishment of autoimmunity as a cause of disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Center for Autoimmune Disease Research, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. nrrose@jhsph.edu
authors.forename: Noel R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Rose
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015551:Autoimmunity; D049673:History, 20th Century; D013967:Thyroiditis, Autoimmune / Q000266:history*