Hay fever, hay asthma and excessive sneezing / by Litton Forbes.

  • Forbes, Litton.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Hay fever, hay asthma and excessive sneezing / by Litton Forbes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HAY PEVER AND HAY ASTHMA. DEFiisriTioN.—An acute inflammation of the pituitary mucous membrane occurritig periodically in May and June. At the outset an objection might fairly be taken ■^ to the term hay fever both as a misnomer and as ^ involving an hypothesis which, however probable in ^ itself, has not yet been completely established. All recent writers have with justice insisted on the im- j portant part played by the pollen of plants in this curious affection. Yet hay, properly speaking, has but little to do with it, the pollen of a variety of grasses and flowering plants in their natural state being the chief exciting cause. In this country hay fever is only met with in May and June. In America, how- . ever, it occurs under two distinct forms, the vernal and \ the autumnal, the latter being met with in the months of j August and September. ; In recent years the literature of hay fever has become very voluminous. In England, Germany, and I .1