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

  • Blackley, Charles Harrison, 1820-1900.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Hay fever : its causes, treatment, and effective prevention. Experimental researches / by Chas. Harrison Blackley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HAY FEYEE: ITS CAUSES, TREATMENT, AND EFFECTIVE PREVENTION. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. § 1. At no period in the history of medicine has the in- vestigation of the causes of disease been carried on more assiduously than it is at the present day. During the last few years considerable advances have been made in this direction; but such is the magnitude of the work, and so great are the difficulties which are inseparable from it, that compai’atively little has yet been accomplished, and it is still, pi'actically, one of the widest, and also one of the least exhausted, fields of inquiry in the whole domain of science. This investigation can not only furnish occupation to the thoughtful and curious mind, but it also offers an almost unbounded terra incognita to the scientific explorer who desires to traverse unknown regions. It is, moreover, pro- bable that in this field of research there are to be found some of the brightest laurels that can be won by the scientific discoverer. It is, however, not on these accounts merely that it ought to invite our attention. The successful elucida- tion of the etiology of disease is fraught with consequences the value of which it is scarcely possible to estimate, and it is principally on account of its intimate connection with the physical well-being of mankind that we ought to be desirous of laying bare its secrets.