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

  • Blackley, Charles H. (Charles Harrison)
Date:
1880
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Credit: Hay fever : its causes, treatment, and effective prevention experimental researches / by Chas. Harrison Blackley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hat-fevee has, in England, been for some years attracting a considerable share of attention amongst the members of the medical profession and also in a less degree amongst those who are unconnected with the profession. Hitherto, however, its causes and, to some extent, its real nature have been but imperfectly understood. In the investigations which are detailed in the followino' pages the object has been to test, by actual experiment, the validity of the opinions held on the causes of the disease, as well as to collect additional information upon points which were uncertain or doubtful, and thus to help to clear up sqme of the obscurities which have rested upon the sub- ject. Being for the most part a record of the personal experience gained in following out the inquiry, the observa- tions are not intended to settle the question of cause for all cases of the disorder. Nevertheless I believe that the results of the experiments, along with the evidence collected from other sources, fully warrant the conclusion that the cases which are due to any other cause than that named are so few in number that they may be considered mere exceptions to a general rule. To those members of the profession who have studied hay-fever and have formed definite opinions upon it, it will appear that the mode in which the subject is treated is unnecessarily minute, but to those who are imperfectly
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