Hay fever and paroxysmal sneezing : their etiology and treatment with an appendix on rose cold / by Morell Mackenzie.

  • Mackenzie, Morell, 1837-1892.
Date:
1887
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    HA Y FE VER. AY FEVER, though not dangerous to life, causes at certain times such extreme discomfort to some of its victims as to make them quite unfit for their ordinary- pursuits ; many others, without being actually disabled, are rendered utterly miserable during the most agreeable season of the year. Under these circumstances, an attempt to elucidate the nature of so troublesome a malady would seem to be highly desirable. The affection has received various names,^ such as Hay Asthma, Pollen Catarrh, Summer Catarrh, Rose Cold, Peach Cold, and Idiosyncratic Catarrh, according as the most prominent symptom, or the supposed cause in a particular case, has been made the basis of nomenclature ; I have thought it convenient to make use of the one most commonly employed in this country. The disease may be defined to be a peadiar affection of the mucous membrane of the eyes, nose, and air-passages, giving rise to catarrh and asthma, almost' invariably caused by the action of -the pollen of grasses and flowers, and therefore prevalent only xvhen they are in blossom. ‘ Dr. Gueneau de Mussy (“ Gaz. Ilebdom.,” January 5, 1872), proposed to call the affection Spasmodic rhino • bronchitis; and it has occurred to Dr. Elias J. Marsh, of Paterson, New Jersey, that it might appropriately be described as Catarrhus venenatus. Dr. Bosworth, of New York, at the meeting of the American Laryngological Association, in May, 1884, suggested the name Rhinitis vaso inotoria, which my distinguished pupil. Dr. J. N. Mackenzie, of Baltimore ( Maryland Med. Journ.,” June 21, 1884), amplified into Coryza vaso-motoria periodica. Dr. Herzog (“Mittheil. d. Ver. d. Aerzte in Steier- mark.” [Reprint, Wien, 1882]), had already proposed the term Rhinitis vaso-motoria for nervous sneezing. Dr. J. N. Mackenzie now calls the complaint Coryza sympathetica. Great practical inconvenience, however, will result if every writer on the subject insists on substituting a term of his own devising fur the familiar and generally recognised name.