Hay fever, its etiology and treatment : with an appendix on rose cold / by Morell Mackenzie.

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1885
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    catarrh was sometimes periodic, occurring, in certain cases, every summer for a month, and occasionally lasting thiough- out the whole of that season. The first detailed account of hay fever was given by Bostock,1 who, in 1819, described a “ periodical affection of the eyes and chest, from which he was himself a sufferer. In 1828,2 this physician published some further observations of the complaint, under the name of “summer catarrh”; in the same year, MacCulloclU speaks of it as a “ well-known disorder,” and mentions that the term Hay Fever had lately become fashionable. A short paper on “ Hay Asthma,” by Gordon,4 appeared in 1829, and, in 1831, Elliotson5 gave a brief description of the complaint. A few years later, the same physician6 discussed the subject more fully, and mentioned that a patient had suggested to him that pollen was the probable cause of the affection. A systematic inquiry into all the circumstances of the disease was made in 1862 by Phoebus,7 of Giessen, whose own personal observation was, however, confined to a single case. Unlike most of the other writers upon the subject, moreover, he did not himself suffer from the complaint. His method consisted in issuing circulars and advertisements, inviting medical men all over the world to send him answers to a series of questions so framed as to embrace every possible kind of information about the causes, symptoms, and morbus [sc. catarrhus] longus et paucis intermissionibus perseverat, modo aliquot menses, modo annos quatuor ; modo redit singulis noctibus per decennium, modo bis in mense per multos annos. Quinqtie cegris contigit graviter laborare hoc morbo per mensem omni astute, alium totam astatcm afflixit quotannis; alius nunquam nisi restate ab eo liber.” 1 “Med.-Chir. Trans.,” vol. x. pt. i. p. 161 ct scq. London, 1819. 2 Ibid., vol. xiv. pt. ii. p. 437 et scq. 3 “Remittent and Intermittent Diseases,” vol. i. p. 394. London, 1S2S. 4 “London Med. Gazette,” vol. iv. p. 266. 1S29. 5 Ibid., vol viii. p. 411 et scq. 1831. 6 “ Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine,” pp. 516-527. Lon- don, 1839. “ Der typisclie Friihsommer-Katarrh.” Giessen, 1862.