Hay fever : its causes, treatment, and effective prevention : experimental researches / by Chas. Harrison Blackley.

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1880
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    by the greater prevalence of those conditions which act as predisposing and exciting causes. §10. This increased interest in the disease has shown itself in the publication of numerous articles on it in the periodical medical literature, and the works of various writers on systematic medicine on the Continent, in America, and in this country. There have also been several trea- tises published in a separate form during the last few years. Among the principal of those which have been pub- lished in this country may be mentioned those of Dr. Abbotts Smith * Dr. Pirrie,t and Dr. G. Moored In America an excellent work§ has been published by Dr. Morrell Wyman, and also one by Dr. Beard.|| Of these I shall have to speak further on. Although the disease has been more prevalent in England and in America than it is in any other part of the world, it is to a German author (Dr. Phoebus, professor of medicine at Giessen,) that we are indebted for the best monographlT that has yet appeared on hay-fever.** § 11. In speaking of the disease having been brought so recently under notice, Bostock, in his second paper, pub- lished in 1828, says: ' One of the most remarkable circum- stances respecting the complaint is its not having been noticed as a special affection until the last ten or twelve * Observations on Hay-Fever, Hay-Asthma, or Summer Catarrh, by Wm. Abbotts Smith, M.D., M.R.C.P. Lond. London, 1865. 2nd edition. t On Hay-Asthma, or the. Affection termed Hay-Fever, by Wm. Pirrie, M.D., &c, &c. London, 1867. X Hay-Fever, or Summer Catarrh: its Causes, Symptoms, Preven- tion and Treatment, by George Moore, M.D. London, 1869. § Autumnal Catarrh (Hay-Fever), by Morrill Wyman, M.D. New York, 1872. II Hay-If 'ever, or Summer Catarrh: its Nature and Treatment, by Geo. M. Beard, M.A., M.D. New York, 1876. IF Der Typische Friihsommer Katan h oder das sogenannte Heufieber, Heuasthma, von Philipp Phoebus, M.D., &c., &c. Giessen, 1862. ** It is to this work that I am indebted for the names of man of the foreign authors, and for those of several of the English authors, who have written on hay-fever.