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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    regarded as most commonly provocative. It covers the hills round about Adelaide to the height of some thousand feet or so. Most of the population of Adelaide are affected with hay-fever during the time of its blossoming, viz., in Septem- ber. In India, where the malady occurs chiefly in February, it is the blossoms of the mango-tree (Mangifera indicd) that are held responsible. J. C. Wilson holds that most subjects are not sensitive to emanations from hay, and points out that there are no distinctive bacteria to give rise to the affection. Marsh, himself a sufferer, stated his belief in the pollen theory, conceiving hay-fever analogous to Rlius toxicodendron, or ivy-poisoning of the skin. There are two authentic cases which Would impair the pollen theory, the well-known exemp- tion of hay-fever subjects at sea being granted. One is mentioned by Walshe, in which a passenger retained his symptoms of hay-fever during a pas- sage across the Atlantic. Abbots Smith has reported the other, in which the disease came on at sea nine miles from land. In this latter case, unfurling the sails in which a large quantity of pollen had been folded may explain the occur-