Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-24
THE HAY FEVER.
Henry Ward Beeeher Has IG-His HUI
mOrOus Description Of the symp-
TOMS and Remedies, aud an ERecthaa
Cure Suggested. Odd. --.g. -; - -....

TOMS ANA Remedies aud an EHecfaal
Cure Suggested. nav. ri 81
Ny DEAR FRIEND That you are q
novice in the matter Of Hay Fever, is very
plain from tie question that you put. For
if you had ever had it, you would never
ask, and if yeu have it, yOu will nevel
again ask what are the syptoms. Imag-
inc man asking what are the syptoms
by which he 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 an
savory contents of bucket.
The Hay Fever is ali symptoms.
You notice some evening that your
eyes are suddenly week. The light dis
turbs them. All in an hour they begin
to shed copious tears. The nose sympa-
thises. Your handkerchief suddenly be-
comes the most important object in life.
By the next day the slightest draft Of
wind sets you to sneezing. It is a reVe-
lation. You never before even suspected
what it was really to. sneeze. If the
door IS open you sneeze. If pane Of
glass is 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 OIL
smoke, you incontinently sneeze. IfyOu
sneeze once you sneeze twenty times
1t is riot Of sneezes. First, q single
one like leader in . 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 fiyes, in
punches Of twenty.
They do not wait for order. They
tread on each other. Four or five sneezes
run together mere clash Of sneezes.
Your eyes meanwhile overflow. Your
nose rejOices. That has beiallen you for
which the prophet longed : "YOur head
has been a fountain Of tears" l have
heard it said that no one can do well more
than one thing at q time. If only you
have Opathalmic catarrh, you may cry,
blow, sneeze and cough each perfectly
and altogether. After twenty minutes
the paroxysm passes, and you cautiously
put your hand up to see if anything is
left of your head. 1t is Sll there Gradu-
ally you get used to it, and come to re-
gard your head as piece Of artillery IN
vented to throw sneezes.
1t is well known that when in health
one may step sneeze by strOking his
nose so as to fatter it a little. There are
times when, though sneeze is a luxury,
it is out ofplace Much as we like luxu-
ries, we are conscious they do not St all
seasons or grace all places. One could
not willingly eat ice-cream at funeral,
nor be married with cigar in his mouth.
These are the early symptoms and con-
tinue about a fortnight. Then, without
letting go Of sneezing, your head becomes
stuffed with a 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 breathing through
it. Two trains meeting on single track,
one or the other must switch off. 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. This
stage lasts about two weeks more. 1t is
not uniform and dull. Now and then a
day will, without a cause or warning,
plump down on you with all the symp-
toms Of the first period. The structure
will be removed eyes and nose, like
the hill 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 ten
dency of the whole complaint to descend.
1t seeks to become bronchial. You are
seized with spasmodic coughs. If you
give way to them, they will leave you
feeling as if blunderbuss, loaded with
shot, had been discharged through your
lungs A cough, like breachy horse,
should be ridden with snaffle mot snuffle)
and curb, and never suffered to get under
way, or to go faster than a walk. But
it is not an unrelieved cough, for it alter
mates with asthma complaint in which
a man feels, when asleep, as if some one
was suftocating him with an unfair use OF
hemp and, when awake, as if the hemp
grew inside Of him, and he was trying
with his breath to pull il up by the
roots. Before you had busy days, but
now you will have your chief occupation
at night.
One of the striking features Of this dis
order is the obstinate neglect Of the
patient to get well.
For remedies are abundant. They are
inhllible too. They pour in upon you
thick as rain drops in an equinoctial storm.
Each only comes with trophies. 1t has
cured its scores, and can cure everything
that sneezes.
Let me draw out system Of treat
ment from the elements which have been
recommended to me. First, complete
routine of water treatment, including hot
baths, douches and wet packs, with drip
ping sheet every morning.
This is to arouse nature in the system
and prepare it for thorough work.
Next, as soon as sneezing begins you
should procure catarrh snuh, OF which
there are some forty kinds, more or less
as you cannot be expected to know which
one is best adapted to your particular
case, you had better try them all. MY
friend, Mr.. Milne, Fulton street, Brook
lyn, will procure them for you with
| pleasure. He keeps a patent medicine
| store near Concord street, and will be
happy to show you in his own person thu
benefit to be derived from letting medi
cine alone.
You will now be in a state to use
| pennyroyal. As it grows everywhere
abundantly do not stint yourself Get
an armful. Make strong tea and
drink it; a strong decoction and wash II
it, smell of it, rub your forehead will
the leaves, and if you can conveniently
lie down on it and roll as you may haV'
seen a cat do with catnip. Thus far yol
have been skirmishing. You will nov
proceed to attack the disease in gooC
earnest. First take two grains OF blu
/ pill every night alternately for week
following it in the morning with guar
bottle Of Congress water (eyery droI
must be drank, the virtue being found a
cream in milk, the strippings) Mix
pint of sulphur with molaSses, and tax
a teaspoOnful morning, noon and night
On alternate days two grains qulnin
NAV be added three times day, and tel
drops of Fowler's solution (arsenic
continued until sort of pufness appea
about the eyes.
You are now we'll under way. If yol
are faithful, signs of faltering will 500
appear in your symptoms You vii
find them much aggravated. Your spir
its will be quite low. But that onl..
shows that the evil spirit is preparing t