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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    action of light, were perhaps to blame; but where light is strongest and lasts the longest—indeed, in the land of the. midnight sun—hay-fever is practically unknown. Pirrie called attention to the fact that exposure to strong light aggravated the symptoms of the attack. The foregoing case of Richard Proctor is an instance of the truth of this. There is an instance of the widow of a cler- gyman whose attacks, most severe in summer, were aroused by sunlight in the early morning. Ingals knew a clergyman who was unable to cross the street on a hot day without sneezing violently unless he carried an umbrella. Persons with sen- sitive mucous membranes, especially subjects of hay-fever, are, no doubt, sometimes liable to at- tacks of sneezing from sunlight; but these symp- toms must not be mistaken for true hay-fever. Ingals states that he knew an individual in whom attacks of sneezing were brought on by exposure to bright gaslight. Gaslight was also regarded by Beard as a cause of this affection. However, Morell Mackenzie shows that gaslight is employed more in winter when the affection does not prevail than in the English spring and American autumn, when the affection most prevails. Nothing can 3