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Hay fever, asthma, and chronic cartarrh : testimonials regarding cure, and special directions for treatment / by M.M. Townsend.

Short documentary film describing the causes and symptoms of hay fever and showing how pollen is collected and made into desensitising sets for sufferers. Grasses are grown for their pollen at a Pollenarium. Dr John Freeman describes how he and Leonard Noon devised a potential treatment for sufferers of hay fever. A detailed sequence shows how the grasses are cut and the pollen collected and dried before being weighed and put into bottles, then taken to the laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London. Dilutions of the extracts of the pollens are sealed in small bottles that make up the desensitising sets, used by hospitals, clinics and GPs. We are shown how a Hay Fever sufferer has different extracts tested on their forearm to see which pollens they get an allergic reaction to. The relevant desensitising set is then prescribed so that the patient can treat herself. The final shot shows a girl who is now able to walk in the countryside, free from her usual Hay Fever symptoms.

1 film reel (18 min.) : black and white, 16 mm

Hay fever.

Cross section through a Chrysanthemum flower bud. The stamen (male reproductive organ of a flower which produces pollen), layers forming the anther walls and developing pollen grains inside the anthers are visible here. Pollen grains contain the male gamete and are produced by the anther in a flower. They are transferred from one flower to another (pollination) so that fertilisation of the female gametes can occur (sexual plant reproduction). Pollen is a common trigger of hay fever or seasonal allergies. Width of image is 750 micrometres.

Developing pollen grains in a Chrysanthemum flower bud, LM

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

16 unnumbered pages, 800 pages, 24 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 8vo (16 cm)

Leonardi Botalli astensis, philosophiæ & medicinæ doctoris Christianissimi regis Caroli IX. Serenissima reginæ, & invictissimi ducis brabantiæ, andium &c. Comitis Flandriæ, &c. Consiliarii & medici : opera omnia medica & chirurgica.  Hac postrema editione à mendis repurgata, methodicè disposita, paragraphis distincta, notis marginalibus, & authorum testimoniis aucta, hinc inde annotationibus illustrata, prodeunt è musaeo Joannis van Horne, med. doct. anat. & chir. prof. ordinarii. in Acad. Lugduno-Batava.

Low crawling plant with shiny dark green leaves and insignificant pale green flowers. A plant genus of the family urticaceae which is the most common cause of pollinosis in Mediterranean countries. It is one of the earliest and most active of the hay fever allergens. It is the source of 'allergen Par o I' and of Pollinex used for desensitisation, immunologic. A compress of crushed leaves has been used on simple burns and scalds.

Parietaria diffusa (Pellitory-of-the-wall)

Notes and extracts on vegetable materia medica, botany, etc. (with the exception of MS.2882, which deals with British insects, and MS.7961 which consists of general correspondence). The plants discussed include species from Africa, Asia and the Americas. Many of the pieces are drafts of lectures (to bodies such as the Royal Botanic Society) or of papers later published in journals such as the Pharmaceutical Journal, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, etc.). Some items include inserted correspondence.

71 items (volumes, files or bundles of papers) Holograph manuscripts and typescripts, held as volumes, files or bundles of papers.

Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica

x, 281 pages, illustrations (plates̃ 23 cm

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Hay fever, asthma, and chronic cartarrh : testimonials regarding cure, and special directions for treatment / by M.M. Townsend.

Hay fever.

Developing pollen grains in a Chrysanthemum flower bud, LM

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

Parietaria diffusa (Pellitory-of-the-wall)

Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica

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

On hay asthma and the affection termed hay fever / by William Pirrie.

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

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Hay fever, asthma, and chronic cartarrh : testimonials regarding cure, and special directions for treatment / by M.M. Townsend.

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Developing pollen grains in a Chrysanthemum flower bud, LM

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

Parietaria diffusa (Pellitory-of-the-wall)

Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica

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

On hay asthma and the affection termed hay fever / by William Pirrie.

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

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