Variola, vaccination, varicella, cholera, erysipelas, whooping cough, hay fever / by H. Immermann [and others] ; edited with additions by John W. Moore ; authorized translation from the German, under the editorial supervision of Alfred Stengel.

  • Immermann, H.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Variola, vaccination, varicella, cholera, erysipelas, whooping cough, hay fever / by H. Immermann [and others] ; edited with additions by John W. Moore ; authorized translation from the German, under the editorial supervision of Alfred Stengel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    known, and yet not common, in France, and particularly in Paris. It is at least more frequent there than in Germany. Since Phobus’s time, isolated cases have been reported from Switzer- land, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Scotland. Morell Mackenzie mentions one or two from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark; Semon and Glas, one from Sweden. No case has been found in Ireland. The Irishwoman mentioned by Dr. Down lived in London. [The statement as to the e.xemption of Ireland from hay-fever needs qualification. The editor knows of his personal knowledge two instances at least. One case is that of a ph}^sician and surgeon residing in a midland county who suffers severely every June—indeed, to such an extent that he has been obliged to make almost yearly pilgrimages to the Isle of Man to escape or abort an attack of what to him is a veritable plague. The second case is that of a clerygman, who suffers at precisely the same season to a greater or less extent every year. This gentleman has studied his symptoms and their cause with care, and is convinced in his own mind that the affection has a microbic origin.] Blackley asserts the occurrence of the disease in the temperate Himala5'an climate of India. In general, Asia, Africa, Polynesia, and Australia are free (MacDonald). Only William Smith, who mistakes the conception of true hay-fever entirely, reports a combination of it with malaria in New Zealand, Australia, Hinclostan, Farther India, and other Asiatic countries. In all lands where the disease occurs it is always less frequent in the country than in the city; less frequent and milder on the sea-coast and in woody, mountainous regions than between them, especially in agri- cultural districts. Yet its course for any single patient is, according to the majority of writers, milder and shorter in the city than in the country. IMoreover, the air of closed rooms is better borne than that in the open. An ocean voyage gives almost absolute protection from the annual attack. Besides the open sea and the northern and southern portions of the earth, there are a number of countries and districts in the temperate zone that are immune in the sense that hay-fever does not exist endemically, and sufferers who arrive from other places are protected against attacks during their stay. With a great reputation in this regard we find, in America, Louisiana (Patton); further. Fire Island on the Atlantic coast of Long Island: the Island of Long Beach on the coast of New Jersey (Ashhurst). The White Mountains, the Green IMountains, the Catskills, and the Adirondack Mountains have sanatoria (Wyman and Beard). Overlook, the highest point of the Catskills, is, according to Blackley, especially sought by patients before the critical time. In England, Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, the Lizard in Cornwall, St. Mave near Osborne, and several islands on the west coast of Scotland are considered immune.