The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-25
Mr. Beeeher on nay Fever.
A LEDGER LETTER.

had fneezed all day, and inquiring Of me whether
that was the symptom Of hay fever! Ny reply to
him VIII perhaps be of service to others, and l
copy II for the Ledger:
My Dear FriendeThat You are novice in the
matter OF hay fever, lie very plain from the q1es
ton that you put. For il you had ever had Il,
you would never ask, and, II you have II, you will
never again ask what are the symptoms. Imag-
be might know whether his nose had been pulled.
or whether he had been kicked down stairs, or
whether some one had thrown over him the IN
savory contents of bucket!
The hay fever is all symptoms.
You notice some evening that your eyes are sud-
denly weak. The light disturbs them. All in an
hour they begin to shed copious tears. The nose
sympatbizes. Your handkerchief suddenly be.
comes the most important object in life. By the
next day the slightest draft Of wind sets you to
sneeziDg. 1t Is q revelation. You never before
even suspected what it was really to sneeze. II
the door Is open you sneeze. If q pain Of glass 10
gone you sneeze. II you look into the sunshine
you sneeze. If little dust rises from the carpet
or the odor of flowers is waited to you. or smell
OF smoke. you incontinently sneeze. II you sneeze
once you sneeze twenty times. 1t is riot Of
sneezes. First, single one, like q leader in q
flock of sheep, bolts over; and then, in spite of
all you can do, the whole flock, fifty by count,
come dashing over, in twos, in fves, in punches
OF twenty.
They do not wait for. order. They tread on
each other. -Four or Eve sneeses run together-a
mere splash Of sneezes. Your eyes meanwhile
overflow. Your nose rejoices. That has befalen
you for which the prophet longed. :" Your head
has been fountain Of tears" l have heard it
said that no one can DO well more than one thing
at a time. If only you have ophthalmic cstarrb,
you may cry, blow, sreeze and cough each per-
paroxysm passes, and you cautiously put your
hand up to see II anything is left Of your head.
1t is all there Gradually you get used to 1t, and
come TO regard your head as a piece Of artillery
invented to throw sneezes.
Ii is well known that, when in health, one may
stop sneeze by stroking his nose so as to fistten
1t little. There are times when, though sneeze
Is luxury, 1t Is out Of place. Much as we like
Injuries, we are conscious that they do not ft all
seasons or grace all places One could not willingly
eat ice.c cream at q funeral, nor ba married with
cigar In his mouth. -. .s-.-
Longing on q summer veranda, The bees dron.
iug ald the flies buzzing. hearty sneeze is enjoy
able. But when discourse grows touching, and
the house is still. and the climax is Just reached
resembling sneeze, especially If you split 1t up by
trying to suppress it, introduces new train of as
sociations. This is even less agreeable il you are
an honorary member, or some distinguished per-
son, put up on the platform, as girls put their
pearls or ribbons on the neck. for show.
But Just imagine a man in the full fight of hay
cold going to meeting and not only, In the words
OF the immortal Watts, firing his zeal along
the road, )" but breaking out in sermon time with
rattle OF sneezes-a perfect fusillade! One man
White6eld or Demosthenes! Wherefore a sneeze
is stronger than an Grafton.
These are the early symptoms, and continue
about fortnight. Then, without letting 90 of
sneezing. your head becomes stuffed with real
premium cold. You cannot breathe through your
nose, and not much through your mouth. You
can smell nothing and taste nothing, and see but
very little, and that little in water colors. Eating
becomes matter of skill. You cannot eat with
your mouth at the same time that you are breath
oil Trn fratu aafip al
track, one or the other must switch of. Thus
you chew and hold your breath and then you
switch to one side your cud, and breathe while.
Thus you shut OF, alternately, bread and breath.
uniform and dull. Now and then day will, with
out cause or warning, plump down on you with
all the symptoms of the first period. The structure
Will be removed; eyes and nose, like the hills
after winter, will flow down in rills. and sneezes
will awaken sylvan echoes, like birds among the
trees.
The third stage is known by the tendency of
the whole complaint to descend. IL seeks to be-
come bronchial. You are seized with spssmodic
coughs; you give way to them they Will leave
had been discharged through your lungs. A cough,
like breachy horse, should be ridden with snaf.
be, mot snuffie) and curb, and never suffered to
get under way, or to go faster than walk. But
L Is not an unreleved cough, for il alternates with
asthma complaint in which man feels, when
asleep, as If some one was suff0cating him with an
unfair use Of hemp; and, when awake, as if the
hemp grew inside of him, and he was trying with
bis breath to pull it up by the roots. Before you
1ad busy days, but now you will have your chief
do not wish you to think that have given you
al the symptoms. Only the outlines are herein
vet down. The filling mp must be withheld from
ieratim and left to experience.
One Of the striking features of this disorder is
he obstinate neglect of the patient to get
we'll.
For remedies are abundant They are infallible
100. They pour in upon you as thick as rain drops
n an equinoctisl storm. Each only comes with
ropics. 1t has cured its scores and can cure eve-
ythng that sneezes.
Let me draw out system of treatment from the |
elements which have been recommended to me. |
'irst, complete routine of water treatment, in
,ludng hot baths, douches and wet packs, with |
tripping sheet every morning.
This is to arouse nature in the system and pre-. |
)are IL for thorough work.
Next, as soon as the sneezing begins you should |
procure catarrh snuff, of which there are some |
expected to know which one is best adapted to
our particular case, you had better try them ALL
iy friend, Mr.. Milne. Fulton street. Brooklyn. will /
'rocure them for you with pleasure. he keeps
latent medicine store near Concord street, and
will be happy to show you in his own person /
lore.
You will now be in q state to use pennyroyaI.
Is il grows everywhere abundantly do not stint
ourself. Get an harmful. Make a strong tea
nd drink it; strong decoction and wash in it,
nell Of it, rub your forehead with the leaves, and
you can conveniently lie down on it, and roll
q you may have seen cat do with catnip. Thus |
ar you have been skirmshing. You will now |
roceed to attack the disease In good earnest. |
'irst take two grains of blue pill every night al
erDately for a week, following II in the morning |
nth quart bottle Of Congress water, (every
rop must be drunk the virtue being found as
ream in milk, in the strippings.) Mix pint of
1lpbur with molasses. and take q teaspoouful
forming, noon and night. On alternate days two
raips quinine may be added three times day, and
en- drops of Fowler's solution larsenic) oontin-
ei until sort of puffness appears about the
yes.
You are now well under way. If You are faith
III, signs of fsltering will soon appear In your
ymptoms. You will find them much aggravated
our spirits will be quite low. But that only
iows that the evil spirit is preparing to leave.
edouble your exertions. Get an inhaler and
)me tincture Of cubebs. Fill the former with hot
alter and put teaspoonful Of the tincture to it,
nd suck like a new born babe. Every time your
yes ache pour some tincture of camphor into q |
owl OF hot water, put towel over your head,
nd steam your eyes.
If you can find tuberose blossoms, keep them
y you, and smell at them often. By this time
tile tincture of lobelid inttdtd. taken four times
day, will contribute to the anomalous sensations
hich you will experience. Put chloride of lime |