Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
Hay-Feyer-its Symptoms Described
THE FIRST SYMPTOMS,

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A person who has had the hay-fever
can recall the first symptoms, dating
back several years. The first year If is
quite mild. About the 25th of August
you will find spot between your
shoulder-blades. 1t might have been
there before, but you never knew of it
before, and now You have only an itch
ing knowledge of its length and breadth.
If you stand out In the sun for a while.
you will seek the nearest lamp-rost, and,
like hog, scratch-providing YOU can
get the post to fit the spot. You 90
home to study what is the matter with
you. You are In a perspiration, either
from wonder or anxiety about if, when
a draft or ar strikes you, and then you
have no time for wonder or anxiety, and
scarcely time to sneeze that is, the
time elapsing between successive
sneezes is so short that you can hardly
distinguish one from the other. 4 party
standing by you would call a dozen
sneeZeS one.
You try to study the cause of the
panic; but the run on your nose is SO
great that 1t keeps you busy paying out.
SECOND YEAR.
About the middle of some fine summer
day, violent sneeZe Will announce to
you the approach of the 18th of August.
You are reminded that you had some
thing just like it before. You will
sneeze occasionally until 2 or 3 clock,
when you rejoice that you are over it:
but the next day it comes on again more
violently. Then you measure that spot
mo or with ha
next day you are sneezing again in such
rapid succession that you have not time
to I'LL your lungs. Your teeth come
together with crash. But you don't
mlnd that, unless your tongue should
be IN the way; then you know all about
1T. As the month advances, your Hay
Fever increases, and at times you feel
like getting mad and you would, if you
had time. About the LIST of September
another trouble presents itself. Your
eyes know weakness that they never
knew before. Whether for the purpose
OF relieving the pent-up passions or
from sympathy, they send forth food
OF tears. No " dry tears - no, nor cool
tears ; but burning tears. You feel
mad enough and bad enough to cry
but these tears are constantly pouring
down your troubled cheeks. Another
perpiexity now comes on your handker-
chiefs have given out. Your partner in
forms you that Nineteen new ones and
swad of old ones are in the wash"
Between sneezing and crying you write
an order on your merchant for two dozen
handkerchiefs also, a note to your
washerwoman to hurry up the washing.
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hands, another difficulty comes to your
"relef;" terrible itching about the
eyelids. You rub them with all your
might. 1t produces an excruciating,
yet pleasing, sensation, if such can be.
You rub and rub, and, although you
have desire to desist, you still rub
on until your eyelids will no longer
wink.
In the morning your eyes are glued to-
gether {; no paste, no cement, not Spauld-
lng's glue-no, nor Jemima's plaster
could stick then together faster. And
thus you spend the next ten days. You
pray for night, and bless God for morn
ing. You scratch your back, blow your
nose, rub your eyes, and sneeze. You
scratch your back, rub your eyes, blow
yonr nose, and sneeze. Then you will
snecze then grasp your handkerchief,
gasp for breath, grasp your nose, and
sneeze. Then you will rub your eyes and
sneeze, rub your back and sneeze, rub
your nose and sneeze then scratch your
back, rubyour eyes, blow your nose, and
sneeze simultaneously. You become
enraged, and, with a pocket-handker-
chief in each hand and one in each
pocket, start for the druggist. You
ask for the latest and most reliable
hay-fever remedies. The druggist
looks smiling, and puts up a market
basket full OF stuff; and, after buying
another dozen handkerchiefs, you start
home. You smoke stramonium, cubebs,
and dandelion inhale carbolic acid,
iodine, ammonia, camphor; douche your
nostrlls with guinine, iron, &C., &C..
&C., &C., &c, !; and get to no relief.
You still rub your back, blow your nose,
wipe your eyes, and sneeze. You hear
of a neighbor who had it. You take
dozen handkerchiefs, and start to see
him. You tell him of all the remedies
you have tried and he does the same.
You sit, and talk and sneeze ; and SO
you go until Oct 1, when you gradually
cease your labors, and in few days you
would not know that you ever had the
hay-fever, were it not for the washer
woman's and the druggists bills.
THE EXTENT OF THE DISEASE.
1t is not difficult for person who has
had the disease to recognize the first
symptoms in others, and it would be
safe to say that one in every twenty
persons whom met in the latter part
of August was troubled with ga cold In
the head, which, in reality, was the first
symptom of hay-fever, as any one who
" has been there" can readily discover.
I'D. Runaley in Chicago Tribune.