Hay-fever and its successful treatment / by W.C. Hollopeter.

  • Hollopeter, W. C. (William Clarence), 1853-1927.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Hay-fever and its successful treatment / by W.C. Hollopeter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tells of a patient who had had hay-fever since 1789, and of another who was sixty-six years of age and who had had the disease from his seventh year, i. e., since 1755, and of a third who had been afflicted for many years. Just when and where the term hay-fever or hay-asthma arose it is impossible to say, but probably it was popularly so named. The emana- tions from dry hay were first thought to have caused it. Dr. Bostock, who was himself a suf- ferer, in 1819, found that the laity knew of the affection, although it was not recognized as a distinct disease by the profession. He objected to the term hay-fever, which was already em- ployed to designate it in his day, contending that moist heat, sunshine, dust, and fatigue were more potent in its causation than emanations from dry hay. It seems remarkable that the profession in England were unfamiliar with hay-fever as a distinct affliction, especially as their king, George IV, was a sufferer from it. In 1828 Bostock, who had first described the disease to the Medico- Chirurgical Society of London as a case of a periodic affection of the eyes and chest, pub- lished some further observations on the complaint