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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    catarrh was sometimes periodic, occurring, in certain cases, every summer for a month, and occasionally lasting through- out the whole of that season. The first detailed account of hay fever was given by Bostock,' who, in 1819, described a “ periodical affection of the eyes and chest,” from which he was himself a sufferer. In 1828, this physician published some further observations of the complaint, under the name of “summer catarrh”; in the same year, MacCulloch^ 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,* appeared in 1829, and, in 1831, Elliotson® gave a brief description of the complaint. A few years later, the same physician® discussed the subject more fully, and mentioned that a patient had suggested to him that pollen was the probable cause of the affection. In 1837 a case was described by J. J. Cazenave,^ of Bordeaux, which in its essential features resembled “ hay fever ” as we now know it. Cazenave recommended his patient to wear “ goggles,” being so far as I know the first to propose this means of protection. He also attempted to prepare the nasal mucous membrane for the enemy’s attack by hardening it with nitrate of silver. Cazenave attributed the complaint to the effect of or catarrh continuing through every season of the year except the summer. The following is the whole passage in the original Latin : ‘ ‘ Interdum tamen fit morbus [sc. catarrhus] longus et paucis intermissionibus perseverat, modo aliquot menses, modo annos quatuor; modo redit singulis noctibus perdecennium, modo bis in mense per multos annos. Qtdnque cegris cotitigit graviter laborare hoc morbo per mensem 07>mi (estate, alium totam eestatem afflixit quotannis; alius nunquam nisi Kstate ab eo liber.” * “Med.-Chir. Trans.,” vol. x. pt. i. p. 161 et seq. London, 1S19. ’ Ibid., vol. xiv. pt. ii. p. 437 et seq. ^ “ Remittent and Intermittent Diseases,” vol. i. p. 394. London, 1828. ^ “London Med. Gazette,” vol. iv. p. 266. 1829. “ Ibid., vol viii. p. 411 et seq. 1831. ® “Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine,” pp. 516-527. Lon- don, 1839. ’’ “Gazette Medicale,” 1837, p. 631.